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The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953: Clergy Under Fire

The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953: Clergy Under Fire

Snape, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History, Book 18

Religion General

ISBN10: 1843833468
ISBN13: 9781843833468
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 15 2007
Pages: 480
Weight: 2.63
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
A survey and reassessment of the role of the army chaplain in its first 150 years.

Few military or ecclesiastical figures are as controversial as the military chaplain, routinely attacked by pacifist and anticlerical commentators and too readily dismissed by religious and military historians. This highly revisionist study represents a complete reappraisal of the role of the British army chaplain and of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the first century and a half of its existence. Challenging old caricatures and stereotypes and drawing on a wealth of new archival material, it surveys the political, denominational and organisational development of the R.A.Ch.D., analyses the changing role and experience of the British army chaplain across the nineteenth century and the two World Wars, and addresses the wider significance of British army chaplaincy for Britain's military, religious and cultural history over the period c.1800-1950.

MICHAEL SNAPE is Senior Lecturer in ModernHistory at the University of Birmingham. The volume has a Foreword by Richard Holmes.

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