Meredith Lake Explained

Meredith Lake
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Occupation:Author, historian

Meredith Lake (born 1980) is an Australian author, historian of religion and broadcaster.

Early life and education

Lake grew up in Sydney in a devout Anglican household.[1] She has a PhD from the University of Sydney, exploring religious narratives about land in colonial Australia, with a 2008 thesis titled "'Such Spiritual Acres': Protestantism, the land and the colonisation of Australia 1788–1850".[2] [3]

Career

Lake is an Honorary Associate of the Department of History at University of Sydney.[2] Her 2011 essay on Christianity and colonialism, "Provincialising God: Anglicanism, place, and the colonisation of Australian land", won the Bruce Mansfield Prize for best article in the Journal of Religious History.[4] [5] Her 2013 book Faith in Action: HammondCare is a history of one of Australia's "largest but least known" Christian charities,[2] founded by Reverend Robert Hammond whose relief centre in Sydney helped people including "Mr Eternity" Arthur Stace and politician John Hatton.[6]

Lake's 2018 book The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History, which looks at the impact of the Bible on Australia,[7] [8] [9] won the Australian History Prize at the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards,[10] the NSW Premier's History Award, and the Non-Fiction award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, and was the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year and the 2019 Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Book of the Year.[2] [11] The judges of the Prime Minister's Award said the book "presents, for the first time, a thorough examination of the broad cultural, political, and historical context that Christianity and the Bible have played in Australia since 1788" and called Lake's writing "lively, energetic and highly accessible."[10] [12]

Since January 2019, Lake has presented the ABC Radio National program Soul Search about faith and spirituality.[2] [13] She has also appeared on ABC TV and community radio stations[14] as well as guest-hosting the TV program Compass.[15] In April 2021, she gave the annual May McLeod Lecture at the United Theological College in Sydney.[16]

Personal life

Lake is a Christian[13] and is married with children.[17] Her youngest child was born in 2018, around the same time she completed her book manuscript.[1]

Publications

Books

Articles and chapters

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meredith Lake's Award-winning Soul Focus on History. 4 June 2019. 13 May 2021. Crosslight.
  2. Web site: Dr Meredith Lake. 26 November 2020. 13 May 2021. ABC Radio National.
  3. Web site: 'Such Spiritual Acres': Protestantism, the land and the colonisation of Australia 1788–1850. Meredith. Lake. University of Sydney. 2008.
  4. Web site: 20 Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians you should get to know in 2020. Graham Joseph. Hill. Graham Hill (theologian). Jen. Barker. 3 January 2020. 9 May 2021. University of Divinity. Vox.
  5. Web site: Meredith Lake wins 2012 Bruce Mansfield Prize. 26 November 2012. 13 May 2021. Religious History Association.
  6. Web site: Author Q & A: Meredith Lake, Faith in Action – the story of Rev. Hammond. Traces Magazine. 9 March 2013. 13 May 2021.
  7. Web site: The Bible in Australia review: Meredith Lake's big story of the big book. Michael. McGirr. The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 May 2018. 13 May 2021.
  8. Web site: Meredith Lake's The Bible in Australia traces the many threads of Christian thought in Australia. The Canberra Times. David. Ferrell. 6 February 2021. 13 May 2021.
  9. Web site: The Bible in Australia: A cultural history by Meredith Lake. Australian Book Review. Alan. Atkinson. May 2018. 401.
  10. Web site: The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History. Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications:Office for the Arts. 2019. 13 May 2021.
  11. Web site: Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A cultural history, updated edition. Rachel. Franks. 20 November 2020. 13 May 2021. Dictionary of Sydney.
  12. Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018), pp. 439. ISBN 9781742235714. RRP AU $39.99. Hilliard. David. . 17. 1 . 2019. 108–110. 10.1017/S1740355318000281. 150120468.
  13. Web site: The Art of Respectful Religious Conversation. 6 August 2019. 13 May 2021. Rebecca. Abbott. Eternity News.
  14. Web site: Meredith Lake. The Conversation.
  15. Web site: How Easter Has Influenced ANZAC Day — Historian Meredith Lake. Hope 102.3. Laura. Bennett. 9 April 2020. 13 May 2021.
  16. Web site: Meredith Lake to deliver 2021 May Macleod Lecture. 19 November 2020. 13 May 2021. Adrian. Drayton. United Theological College.
  17. Book: Lake, Meredith. The Bible in Australia:A Cultural History. 2018. NewSouth. 424.

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