The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953

Clergy Under Fire
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84383-346-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 480 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1193 g

Reihe: Studies in Modern British Religious History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snape, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Snape, Michael
MICHAEL SNAPE is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University.