登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953
Michael Francis Snape
其他書名
Clergy Under Fire
出版Boydell Press, 2008
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Military / GeneralReligion / GeneralReligion / HistoryReligion / ClergyReligion / Christian Church / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN18438334689781843833468
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oEWYDTHXSbYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋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 Modern History at the University of Birmingham. The volume has a Foreword by Richard Holmes.