The Myth of a Secular New Zealand

New Zealand is often defined as a pre-eminently secular country: in Kendrich Smithyman's words, as “a land without presence”. We need to define much more precisely what we mean by this, and distinguish secularisation, the process, from secularism, the ideology. Parallel with the collapse of Chr...

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Main Author: Matheson, Peter 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2006
In: Pacifica
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-192
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