Introduction
Anglican imperial designs? Funding, recruitment and national backgrounds
Gentility, manners and the ideal colonial clergyman
Social background, education and motivation
Ecclesiastical roles: rites of passage and public worship
Flogging parsons? Chaplaincy, the magistracy and civil roles
Clergy, culture and society
Clergy and indigenous peoples
The impact of voluntarism
Colonial quiverfuls: clerical family life
Clerical identity, laity and voluntarism
Conclusion
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