Title: The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953
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.
Subjects: Chaplains, Great britain, army, History, Military chaplains, Great Britain. Army. Chaplain's Department, Great Britain, Pastoral Care, Military Personnel, Clergy, History, 20th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 18th Century