Title: The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953 : clergy under fire /
Authors: Snape, M. F. 1968-
Publisher: Boydell Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Great Britain. History.; Pastoral Care; Military Personnel; Clergy; Pastoral Care history; History, 20th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 18th Century; Military Personnel history; Clergy history; Military chaplains Great Britain History.; United Kingdom; United Kingdom.; United Kingdom.
Abstract: "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 RAChD, 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"--Jacket.
Contents: 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: From victory in Europe to the Korean War.