1st Edition
God and the British Soldier Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars
By Michael Snape
Copyright 2006
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain’s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them.
Historians of the First and Second World Wars have consistently underestimated the importance of religion in Britain during... Read more
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
Biography
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)
