Locating Christ in a Communist World: The Reverends Frank Hartley and Victor James as Political Travellers Export

@article{citeulike:6058192, abstract = {Because of their political travels and reportage during the Cold War, Australian peace activists the Reverends Frank Hartley and Victor James conform to Paul Hollander's classic typology of the ‘political pilgrim’. This article contests this explanatory model. It argues that Hollander's typology does not account properly for the nexus between religious faith and political life that profoundly shaped and guided not only Hartley and James’ political activism, but also their travel experiences. It demonstrates that faith-related factors extraneous to the material experience of their travels helped them to hold, and propagate, idealised views of life under socialist regimes.}, author = {McArthur, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {6058192}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610902849310}, doi = {10.1080/10314610902849310}, journal = {Australian Historical Studies}, keywords = {australia, communism, history, religion}, number = {2}, pages = {178--196}, posted-at = {2009-11-03 03:45:33}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Locating Christ in a Communist World: The Reverends Frank Hartley and Victor James as Political Travellers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610902849310}, volume = {40}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6058192 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6058192 N2 - Because of their political travels and reportage during the Cold War, Australian peace activists the Reverends Frank Hartley and Victor James conform to Paul Hollander's classic typology of the ‘political pilgrim’. This article contests this explanatory model. It argues that Hollander's typology does not account properly for the nexus between religious faith and political life that profoundly shaped and guided not only Hartley and James’ political activism, but also their travel experiences. It demonstrates that faith-related factors extraneous to the material experience of their travels helped them to hold, and propagate, idealised views of life under socialist regimes. IS - 2 JF - Australian Historical Studies EP - 196 TI - Locating Christ in a Communist World: The Reverends Frank Hartley and Victor James as Political Travellers PB - Routledge VL - 40 SP - 178 KW - australia KW - communism KW - history KW - religion AU - McArthur, Robert PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610902849310 ER -