Book Launches – 26 May and 5 June 2015
Book Launches : Sydney – 26 May 2015 and Melbourne – 5 June 2015
There will be Sydney and Melbourne Book Launches for Glen O’Brien and Hilary Carey, eds. Methodism in Australia: A History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472429483
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Sydney: https://www.facebook.com/events/382828755235626/
Melbourne: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566652173623695/
United Theological College Sydney, 26 May at 7:30pm
At this event, Associate Professor Dean Drayton will launch Glen O’Brien and Hilary Carey, eds. ‘Methodism in Australia: A History’ (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), the first national history of Methodism in Australia for over one hundred years. According to Professor Geoffrey Blainey Emeritus Professor of History, Melbourne University, this book ‘fills a deep gap in the history of Australian religion and daily life.’ Dean Drayton was Moderator of the Uniting Church’s NSW Synod (1995-1996), and in 1997 was Visiting Lecturer at Perkins School of Theology in Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He served as President of the Uniting Church Assembly from 2003 -2006.
Queen’s College University of Melbourne 1-17 College Crescent Parkville Friday 5 June at 6:30pm
At this event, John Hirst Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University will launch Glen O’Brien and Hilary Carey, eds. ‘Methodism in Australia: A History’ (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), the first national history of Methodism in Australia for over one hundred years. According to Professor Geoffrey Blainey Emeritus Professor of History, Melbourne University, this book ‘fills a deep gap in the history of Australian religion and daily life.’ Professor Hirst is a prolific historian whose published books include ‘Convict Society and its Enemies,’ (1983) ‘Sense and Nonsense in Australian History’ (2006) and ‘The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770’ (2007). He has recently completed a History of Australian Catholic University.