Michael Snape

God and the British Soldier (eBook, ePUB)

Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, this book shows that religion had much greater currency and influence in twentieth-century British society than has previously been realized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134643400
• Artikelnr.: 38249226

Autorenporträt

Michael Snape is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham and a member of the University of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies. He is author of The Redcoat and Religion (Routledge, 2005) The Church of England in Industrialising Society (2003)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Copyright acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 'Diffusive Christianity' and the religion of the soldier
2 God and the generals
3 Command and the clergy: generals, chaplains and morale
4 The church in khaki
5 Religion, morality and war
6 The army and religious philanthropy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index