Glen O'Brien is Research Coordinator at Eva Burrows College, within the University of Divinity and a Member of the University of Divinity's Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy. He is a Research Fellow of the Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research and an Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. He has published widely on Wesleyan and Methodist themes and engaged in post-doctoral research at Duke University, Asbury Theological Seminary, Oxford Brookes University, and Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. He co-edited, with Hilary M. Carey, and contributed several chapters, to Methodism in Australia: A History (2015).

This book gives a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, as well as of The Salvation Army. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated.

1 Introduction 2 Holiness at the Ends of the Earth: The Salvation Army in Australia 3 'A Beautiful Virgin Country Ready for a Revival of Bible Holiness': Early Visiting Holiness Evangelists 4 'Dark Days and Long Hard Pulls': The Post-War Emergence of Wesleyan-Holiness Churches 5 'A Modern Heresy': Opposition on Theological Grounds 6 'Just another "Queer Sect" from Over the Pacific': Americanism and Anti-Americanism 7 Joining the Evangelical Club: Moving Along the Church-Sect Continuum 8 'They Made a Pentecostal Out of Her': Fire-Baptized Holiness 9 'Old Time Methodists in a New World': The Continuing Viability of Conservative Religion 10 Conclusion