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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.
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.
Price: $190.00
Pages: 480
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Boydell Press
Publication Date:
15 November 2007
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781843833468
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
RELIGION / History, History of religion
[The author's] wide range of knowledge has made him the ideal historian of this particular department and enabled him to place it firmly in context.
Introduction
The Origins and Early Years of the Army Chaplains' Department
The Army Chaplains' Department from Waterloo to the Crimea
The Army Chaplains' Department from the Crimea to South Africa
The Army Chaplains' Department and the First World War
The Royal Army Chaplains' Department and the Second World War
Epilogue
Retrospect
Bibliography
Index
The Origins and Early Years of the Army Chaplains' Department
The Army Chaplains' Department from Waterloo to the Crimea
The Army Chaplains' Department from the Crimea to South Africa
The Army Chaplains' Department and the First World War
The Royal Army Chaplains' Department and the Second World War
Epilogue
Retrospect
Bibliography
Index