For those who find amusement in handbags between historians (the names they call one another!
What must it be like behind the privacy of academic walls?), there is some lively debate on developments in New Zealand religious history to be found in The Spirit of the Past, a book of essays edited by Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison (Victoria University Press).
Readers are offered explorations of such diverse topics as army chaplaincy and the evils of mixed marriage or the arcana of the now defunct Westminster Fellowship. In a striking essay on the Church as a site of romance, Charlotte Greenhaigh argues that the popularity and power of religion in New Zealand history has been overlooked by historians, something for which this volume makes amends.
- Geoffrey Vine
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