Story: Religion and society

More links and websites

• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

  The official website for Anglicans in New Zealand.

• New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference

  The official website of the New Zealand Catholic Church.

• Methodist Church of New Zealand

  The official website of the New Zealand Methodist Church

• Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

  The official website of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand.

• Religious affiliation

  This page of the Statistics New Zealand site provides a summary of information about religious affiliation in 2013.

More suggestions and sources

• Bennett, Enid (updated by Susan Jones in 2018). 'Organisations related to the churches, religion and spirituality.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Breward, Ian. Godless schools: a study in Protestant reactions to the Education Act of 1877. Christchurch: Presbyterian Bookroom, 1967.

• Davidson, Allan K. Christianity in Aotearoa: a history of church and society in New Zealand. Wellington: Education for Ministry, 2004.

• Jackson, H. R. Churches and people in Australia and New Zealand, 1860–1930. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1987.

• Lineham, Peter. Sunday best: how the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the church. Auckland: Massey University Press, 2017.

• O’Connor, P. S. ‘Sectarian conflict in New Zealand, 1911–1920.’ Political Science 19, no. 1 (1967): 3–16.

• Stenhouse, John. ‘God’s own silence: secular nationalism, Christianity and the writing of New Zealand history.’ New Zealand Journal of History 38, no. 1 (2004): 52–71.