Introduction: New Perspectives on Secularisation in Britain (and Beyond)

This introductory article reviews the recent developments in the debate on secularisation to establish the context within which the articles in this collection are located. It argues that the debate is complex and multi-faceted, and has been subject to refocus and redefinition in the last decade. The article traces the contributors’ previous interventions in the debate, and summarises the articles in this volume. It concludes that the theme of secularisation remains of continuing interest to scholars precisely because it has such broad collections between history and other disciplines. Moreover, the secularisation debate continues to engage scholars on different sides of the enlightenment divide.

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Friends Farm: Australia’s First Quaker Commune

Australia has a long and rich history of religious groups trying to establish some sort of utopia by removing themselves from urban centres to rural idylls. The first of these was H errnhut, in western Victoria (1853–1889), and today there are many such as D anthonia B ruderhof and N ew G ovardhana, in NSW, C henrezig, in Queensland and R ocky C ape H utterites in Tasmania. While Quakers in the UK and USA have a tradition of forming rural communes starting from the seventeenth century, the first, and most important of such in Australia was F riends F arm, established in 1869 on what is now Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. This group was led by the charismatic Alfred Allen, a radical Quaker from Sydney. He believed that he had been reborn, held Christ within him, and had achieved sin-free perfection. He was disowned, twice, by Sydney Quakers after when he led his small band of would-be communards to the “wilderness” of Queensland where they sought to create a perfect society. Not surprisingly, it did not quite work out that way.

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The Realization of Gender Quotas in Post-collapse Iceland

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‘Germanje’: Dutch empire-building in Nazi-occupied Europe

Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 240-257
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Populating the Greater Germanic Empire

Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 165-169
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Negotiating Germanness: National Socialist Germanization policy in the Wartheland

Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 214-239
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Organizing the ‘people’s community’: the NSDAP and the ‘ethnic Germans’ in Nazi-occupied territories

Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 170-190
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‘Sword and plough’: settling Nazi stormtroopers in Eastern Europe, 1936–43

Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 191-213
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A Prison Without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism/The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

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Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire

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