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chapter primarily addresses. Rather than exploring institutional strategies, this chapter examines individual efforts of women religious. The determination of women religious to stand with the poor and marginalised was intrinsic to experimental ministries and undergirded a humanitarianism that would be political, without being overtly activist or protest-oriented. 28 Change took place within a particular context, four aspects of which can be singled out as significant. First was a Catholic theological dimension that emanated from the nouvelle théologie of the 1930s
and A. May, ‘Australian responses to the Indian famine, 1876–78: sympathy, photography and the British Empire’, Australian Historical Studies , 43:2 (2012), 233–52 . 131 S. Roddy et al., The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912 (London, 2019) , chapter 6. 132 See the meeting after Hunter Valley floods reported in the Sydney Mail , 2 July 1864. 133 Newcastle Chronicle , 18 January 1868
NP, II , p. cxlii. 14 A 1689 Massachusetts fast-day proclamation referenced the ‘present Circumstances of the State of Europe’: www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.03302000/ . A March 1756 Connecticut proclamation included the ‘amazingly Awful’ earthquakes in ‘diverse Places’ as a reason for fasting: www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.00301000/?sp=1 , both accessed 14 April 2020. 15 A. Moniz, From Empire to Humanity: the American Revolution and the origins of humanitarianism