Contact details
Room 2S10, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel +64 3 479 8609
Email john.stenhouse@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
1986: PhD Massey University
1980: BA(Hons) Massey University
Research interests
My research interests centre on the interconnections between science, religion, race, politics and gender in the modern world, using New Zealand as the major site of study. I am currently working on three projects: humanitarian and Maori Christians and their critics in colonial New Zealand; Christian missions and knowledge-making from the early church to the twenty-first century; and religion, politics, race and gender in southern Dunedin 1880–1940s.
Other interests
John is a member of the New Zealand Historical Association, the Religious History Association, the History of Science Society, the Pacific Circle Commission of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, the Royal Society Historical Branch and a board member of the Otago Theological Foundation.
Publications
Stenhouse, J. (2022, September). Reading Darwin during and after the New Zealand Wars, 1860-1890. History Programme Research Seminar, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
Stenhouse, J. (2022, September). Blowing the whistle on sweated labour: The Reverend Rutherford Waddell and the great anti-sweating campaign, 1880-1900. Whistleblowers: Honoured, vilified or forgotten?, University of the Third Age, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
Stenhouse, J. (2022, March). Evolution and creation in New Zealand. Science & Belief in Society Podcast with James Riley and Richard Grove, International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society. Retrieved from https://scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/2022/03/15/s2-episode-5-evolution-and-creation-in-new-zealand-with-dr-john-stenhouse/
Stenhouse, J. (2022). Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900. Studies in History & Philosophy of Science, 96, 87-99. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.09.002
Stenhouse, J. (2022). Hirini Kaa explores the history of the Māori Anglican Church [Review of the book Te Hāhi Mihinare: The Māori Anglican Church]. History Australia, 19(1), 181-183. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2022.2028560
Hofmeyr, J. W., & Stenhouse, J. (Eds.). (2018). Internationalising higher education: From South Africa to England via New Zealand : Essays in honour of Professor Gerald Pillay. Centurion, South Africa: Mediakor, 281p.
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Paul, D. B., Stenhouse, J., & Spencer, H. G. (Eds.). (2018). Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 320p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
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Stenhouse, J., & Knowles, B. (Eds.). (2007). Christianity in the post secular West. Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press, 290p.
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Stenhouse, J., & Wood, G. A. (Eds.). (2005). Christianity, modernity and culture: New perspectives on New Zealand history. Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press.
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Stenhouse, J., & Thomson, J. (Eds.). (2004). Building God's own country: Historical essays on religions in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 278p.
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Stenhouse, J., Knowles, B., & assisted by Wood, A. (Eds.). (2004). The future of Christianity: Historical, sociological, political and theological perspectives from New Zealand. Adelaide: ATF Press, 241p.
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Ahdar, R. J., & Stenhouse, J. (Eds.). (2000). God and Government: The New Zealand Experience. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 146p.
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Numbers, R. L., & Stenhouse, J. (Eds.). (1999). Disseminating Darwinism: the Role of Place, Race, Religion and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press, 300p.
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Rae, M., Regan, H., & Stenhouse, J. (Eds.). (2016). Science and theology: Questions at the interface. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 272p.
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Stenhouse, J. (2020). Missionary science. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), The Cambridge history of science (Vol. 8): Modern science in national, transnational, and global context. (pp. 90-107). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139044301.008
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Stenhouse, J. (2019). Christian missionaries, science, and the complexity thesis in the nineteenth-century world. In B. Lightman (Ed.), Rethinking history, science and religion: An exploration of conflict and the complexity principle. (pp. 65-82). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Paul, D. B., Stenhouse, J., & Spencer, H. G. (2018). Introduction: Eugenics as a transnational subject: The British dominions. In D. B. Paul, J. Stenhouse & H. G. Spencer (Eds.), Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. (pp. 1-19). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
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Stenhouse, J. (2018). Charles Darwin, Robery Fitzroy, missionaries and Maori: Science and religion in 19th-century New Zealand. In J. W. Hofmeyr & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), Internationalising higher education: From South Africa to England via New Zealand : Essays in honour of Professor Gerald Pillay. (pp. 105-126). Centurion, South Africa: Mediakor.
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Stenhouse, J. (2018). Undesirable Bill's undesirable bill: William Pember Reeves and eugenics in late-Victorian New Zealand. In D. B. Paul, J. Stenhouse & H. G. Spencer (Eds.), Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. (pp. 129-151). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
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Stenhouse, J. (2017). A peaceable Puritan? Rutherford Waddell and God's own country. In G. Troughton (Ed.), Saints and stirrers: Christianity, conflict and peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814-1945. (pp. 79-102). Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2017). The Bible and science. In G. B. Ferngren (Ed.), Science and religion: A historical introduction. (2nd ed.) (pp. 235-250). Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2016). God, nation and history: William Pember Reeves and the writing of New Zealand history. In G. Troughton & S. Lange (Eds.), Sacred histories in secular New Zealand. (pp. 54-71). Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2015). Building "God's own country": The Reverend Rutherford Waddell, the global Irish, and New Zealand history. In C. Barr & H. M. Carey (Eds.), Religion and greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish global networks, 1750-1950. (pp. 340-362). Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2014). Calvin's own country? Calvinists, anti-Calvinists and the making of New Zealand culture. In M. Rae, P. Matheson & B. Knowles (Eds.), Calvin, the man and the legacy. (pp. 143-169). Adelaide, Australia: ATF Theology.
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Stenhouse, J. (2014). Missionaries and science and medicine. In H. R. Slotten (Ed.), Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology (Vol. 2). (pp. 116-121). Oxford University Press. [Encyclopaedia/Dictionary Entry].
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Stenhouse, J. (2011). Church and state in New Zealand, 1835-1870: Religion, politics, and race. In H. M. Carey & J. Gascoigne (Eds.), Church and state in old and new worlds. (pp. 233-259). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
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Stenhouse, J. (2011). Selwyn through settler eyes. In A. K. Davidson (Ed.), A controversial churchman: Essays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn. (pp. 88-103). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.
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Stenhouse, J. (2011). The controversy over the recognition of religious factors in New Zealand history: Some reflections. In G. Troughton & H. Morrison (Eds.), The spirit of the past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand history. (pp. 43-54). Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2010). The Darwinian debates in Dunedin. In D. Galloway & J. Timmins (Eds.), Aspects of Darwin: A New Zealand celebration. (pp. 104-119). Dunedin, New Zealand: Friends of the Knox College Library, Hewitson Library, Knox College.
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Stenhouse, J. (2009). Religion and society. In G. Byrnes (Ed.), The new Oxford history of New Zealand. (pp. 323-356). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand.
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Stenhouse, J. (2008). Secular New Zealand? Or God's own country. In B. Patrick (Ed.), New Vision New Zealand (Vol. III). (pp. 79-92). Auckland, New Zealand: Tabernacle Books.
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Stenhouse, J. (2007). Introduction. In J. Stenhouse & B. Knowles (Eds.), Christianity in the post secular West. (pp. vii-xv). Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2006). Galileo's dilemma. In R. Priestley (Ed.), The elegant universe of Albert Einstein: The collected lectures of the Royal Society of New Zealand E=MC2 series, broadcast on National Radio. (pp. 145-163). Wellington, New Zealand: Awa Press.
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Beattie, J., & Stenhouse, J. (2005). God and the natural world in nineteenth-century New Zealand. In J. Stenhouse & G. A. Wood (Eds.), Christianity, modernity and culture: New prespectives of New Zealand history. (pp. 180-206). Adelaide: ATF Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2005). Christianity, women and the working class: A Dunedin case study 1885-1935. In J. Stenhouse & G. A. Wood (Eds.), Christianity, modernity and culture: New perspectives on New Zealand history. (pp. 157-179). Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2005). Church, occupation and class in southern Dunedin, 1890-1940. In M. Fairburn & E. Olssen (Eds.), Class, gender and the vote: Historical perspectives from New Zealand. (pp. 51-74). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2005). Introduction. In J. Stenhouse & G. A. Wood (Eds.), Christianity, modernity and culture: New perspectives on New Zealand history. (pp. 1-22). Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press.
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Numbers, R. L., & Stenhouse, J. (2004). Anti-evolutionism in the Antipodes: From protesting evolution to promoting creationism in New Zealand. In S. Coleman & L. Carlin (Eds.), The cultures of creationism: Anti-evolutionism in English-speaking countries. (pp. 125-144). Aldershot, England: Ashgate.
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Stenhouse, J. (2004). Introduction. In J. Stenhouse & J. Thomson (Eds.), Building God's own country: Historical esssays on religions in New Zealand. (pp. 9-18). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
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Stenhouse, J., & Knowles, B. (2004). Introduction. In J. Stenhouse & B. Knowles (Eds.), The future of Christianity: Historical, sociological, political and theological perspectives from New Zealand. (pp. vii-xii). Adelaide: ATF Press.
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Stenhouse, J., & Paterson, L. (2004). Ngā poropiti me ngā Hāhi: Prophets and the curches. In T. M. Ka'ai, J. C. Moorfield, M. P. J. Reilly & S. Mosley (Eds.), Ki te Whaiao: An introduction to Māori culture and society. (pp. 171-180). Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson Education New Zealand.
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Stenhouse, J. (2003). God, the devil and gender. In B. Brookes, A. Cooper & R. Law (Eds.), Sites of gender: Women, men and modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939. (pp. 313-347). Auckland University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (2000). Genesis and science. In G. B. Ferngren (Ed.), The history of science and religion in the Western tradition: An encyclopedia. (pp. 76-78). New York: Garland.
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Stenhouse, J. (2000). Religion, politics, and the New Zealand wars 1860-1872. In R. Ahdar & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), God and Government: The New Zealand Experience. (pp. 21-40). Dunedin: University of Otago.
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Stenhouse, J., & Ahdar, R. J. (2000). Introduction. In R. J. Ahdar & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), God and Government: The New Zealand Experience. (pp. 9-20). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
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Numbers, R. L., & Stenhouse, J. (1999). Introduction. In R. L. Numbers & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion and Gender. (pp. 1-6). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (1999). Darwinism in New Zealand, 1859-1900. In R. L. Numbers & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender. (pp. 61-90). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Stenhouse, J. (1996). Alfred Kingcome Newman. In C. Orange (Ed.), Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Vol III, 1901-1920. (pp. 358-359). Auckland, Wellington: Auckland University Press and the Department of In.
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Stenhouse, J. (2016). Arguments for the existence of God from nature and science [Response]. In M. Rae, H. Regan & J. Stenhouse (Eds.), Science and theology: Questions at the interface. (pp. 87-96). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Stenhouse, J. (2022). Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900. Studies in History & Philosophy of Science, 96, 87-99. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.09.002
Journal - Research Article
Stenhouse, J. (2021). Creationists and evolutionists in New Zealand, 1899-2010: Science, religion, politics, and race. Almagest, 12, 92-123. doi: 10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.125387
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Stenhouse, J. (2016). From Ulster to New Zealand: The remarkable career of the Reverend Rutherford Waddell. Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, 40, 1-15.
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Paul, D. B., Stenhouse, J., & Spencer, H. G. (2013). The two faces of Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle and governor of New Zealand. Quarterly Review of Biology, 88(3), 219-225. doi: 10.1086/671485
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Stenhouse, J. (2013). The passionate pastor: The cultural performances of the Reverend Rutherford Waddell. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 15, 22-35.
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Stenhouse, J. (2012). 'Like strychnine in its bones'? Puritanism, literary culture, and New Zealand history. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 30, 150-176.
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