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Research interests
I am a religious and cultural historian. My major research interests lie in the history of religion and imperialism particularly within the transnational boundaries of the nineteenth-century British empire. I am interested in big historical questions such as how religion serves to tie empires together (or tear them apart) and different sites of mission-led settler colonialism. I have written about religion and punishment, the history of religious orders, missions and missionaries, missionary linguistics, the history of the colonial Bible and 'colonial' missions to British settler colonies. My most recent book, Empire of Hell, winner of the Kay Daniels prize, provides a religious history of the campaign to end the transportation of British and Irish convicts.
I trained initially as a medieval historian at the University of Oxford and I continue to retain an interest in the history of comparative religions, empires and forms of belief across the Latin, Greek and Arabic global cultures.
My current projects include a collaborative history of missions to seamen, and the history of the 'global bible', the plan to translate the bible into all the languages of the world. I am also writing a short history of the 'condemned sermon' at Newgate.
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Contact details
Prof. Hilary M. Carey FAHAProfessor of Imperial & Religious HistorySchool of Humanities (History)Arts Complex, Woodland RoadClifton Bristol BS8 1THEmail: hilary.carey@bristol.ac.ukTel: +44 117 3318245 (Internal 18245) Office Arts Complex Humanities Building 1.H022Research interests
Teaching
I teach a range of courses for undergraduates and postgraduates in areas of my research expertise including HIST20120 Outlaws, HIST30122 Global Empires and HISTM0017 Themes in the History of Colonialism.
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Research supervision
I am happy to supervise postgraduates in the fields of imperial religious history, histories of settler colonialism and topics in religious history more widely.
External positions
Expert Panel for Humanities and Arts, Icelandic Research Fund
2017 → 2022
Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle
1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2021
Keywords
- colonialism
- religious history
- Australia
- convicts and convict transportation
- medieval astrology
- imperialism
- ecclesiastical history
- missions
- British Empire
- seamen and mariners
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Projects
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Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800-1914
1/02/23 → 31/01/26
Project: Research
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Research output
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Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875
Carey, H., Mar 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 359 p.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750–1950
Barr, C. (ed.) & Carey, H. M., 2015, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press. 456 p. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion; no. 73)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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Methodism in Australia: A History
O'Brien, G. (ed.) & Carey, H. M. (ed.), Apr 2015, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 308 p. (Ashgate Methodist Studies Series)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
Prizes
Activities
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British Protestant Missions - Invited book launch
Hilary M Carey (Speaker)
11 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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Turning Points in Global Mission History (1600-2000)
Hilary M Carey (Invited speaker)
10 Sept 2019 → 12 Sept 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
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Bentham and Australia
Hilary M Carey (Invited speaker)
11 Apr 2019 → 12 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk