Michael Snape The Royal Army Chaplains\' Department, 1796-1953 (Hardback) For Sale

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Title: The Royal Army Chaplains\' Department, 1796-1953
Condition: New
Subtitle: Clergy under Fire
Author: Michael Snape
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1843833468
EAN: 9781843833468
ISBN: 9781843833468
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 11/15/2007
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 1g
Book Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
Release Year: 2007

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