Academic Publications

Books

  • Irving, S. (2008), 'Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire', Pickering and Chatto, 9781851968893, Republished in 2016 by Routledge.

Chapters in Books

  • “Wrestling with Life’s Biggest Questions: How the New Atheism Drove a Historian to Christianity”, (2023. Forthcoming), in Alister McGrath and Denis Alexander, eds., Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, (Grand Rapids: 2023).

  • Irving, S. (2019), 'The surprising lineage of useful knowledge', Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie, The Boydell Press 9781783274505.

  • Irving, S. (2007), 'An Empire restored : America and the Royal Society of London in the Restoration', America in the British Imagination, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847181694.

Journal Articles

  • Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2022), ‘Evangelicals and the Religious Liberty of Indigenous Australians in the Period of Nation-Building: The Arrernte People’s Sacred Tywerrenge”, Lucas: Journal of Evangelical History, December 2022.

  • Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2022), '"Sworn to no master" : the intellectual traditions of liberty of conscience in colonial New South Wales to 1856', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 68, no 1 , pp 4 - 17.

  • Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2021), 'The forgotten history of religious liberty : Richard Johnson Lecture, 2020', Journal of Religious History, vol 45, no 4 , pp 644 - 658.

  • Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2021), 'Catholic emancipation and the idea of religious liberty in 1830s New South Wales', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 67, no 2 , pp 193 - 207.

  • Irving, S. (2020), 'Comparative history and ethnography in William Ellis's Polynesian Researches', Journal of Pacific History, vol 55, no 1 , pp 1 - 17.

  • Irving, S. (2020), 'Enlightenment ethnography on the global periphery : the case of the Duff missionary voyage to the South Pacific, 1796-1798', Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol 53, no 4 , pp 629 - 646.

  • Irving, S. (2019), '"Redeemed from savagery" : sanctification and civilization in the accounts of Cook Islands missionaries Aaron Buzacott and John Williams', Missiology: An International Review, vol 47, no 3, pp 226 - 239.

  • Irving, S. (2019), 'From Eden to savagery and civilization : British colonialism and humanity in the development of natural history, ca. 1600-1840', History of the Human Sciences, vol 32, no 4, pp 63 - 79.

  • Irving, S. (2018), 'From Little Gidding to Virginia : the seventeenth century Ferrar family in the Atlantic colonial context', The Seventeenth Century, vol 33, no 2, pp 183 - 194.

  • Irving, S. (2018), 'Theology, idolatry and science : John Williams' missionary ethnography and natural history of the South Pacific', Journal of Religious History, vol 42, no 3, pp 343 - 358.

  • Irving, S. (2017), 'Nature, knowledge and civilisation : connecting the Atlantic and Pacific worlds in the Enlightenment', Itinerario, vol 41, no 1, pp 93 - 107.

  • Irving, S. (2017), 'Disease and civilization : a Scottish Atlantic network of physicians in the Enlightenment', Britain and the World, vol 10, no 2, pp 197 - 216.

  • Irving, S. (2017), '"The sagacity of the Indians" : William Dampier's surprising respect for indigenous knowledge', Journal of Early Modern History, vol 21, pp 543 - 564.

  • Stonebraker, J. and Irving, S. (2015), 'Natural law and Protestantism : a historical reassessment, and its contemporary significance', Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, vol 4, no 3, pp 421 - 441.

  • Irving, S. (2015), 'Beyond dominion and stewardship : humanity and nature in Puritan theology', American Theological Inquiry, vol 8, no 1, pp 49 - 59.

  • Irving, S. (2014), 'Public knowledge, natural philosophy, and the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters', Early American Literature, vol 49, no 1, pp 67 - 88.

  • Irving, S. (2014), 'Governing nature : the problem of Northern Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol 45, no 3, pp 388 - 406.

  • Stonebraker, J. and Irving, S. (2014), 'The just war tradition reconsidered : Protestantism and international law', Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, vol 3, no 3, pp 373 - 392.

  • Irving, S. (2013), 'Rethinking corruption : natural knowledge and the New World in Joseph Hall's 'Mundus alter et idem' ', Journal of Early Modern Studies, vol 2, no 2, pp 150 - 168.

  • Irving, S. (2012), 'Rethinking instrumentality : natural philosophy and Christian charity in the early modern Atlantic world', HOPOS : the Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, vol 2, pp 55 - 76.

  • Irving, S. and et al, .. (2010), 'The history of Atlantic science : collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history', Atlantic Studies, vol 7, no 4, pp 397 - 419.

  • Irving, S. (2006), ''In a pure soil': Colonial anxieties in the work of Francis Bacon', History of European Ideas, vol 32, no 3, pp 249 - 262.