The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953
Subtitle: Clergy under Fire (Studies in Modern British Religious History)
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781843833468
Subjects: History of religion; History; Religion / History; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference
Description: "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.