The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953

Name: The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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By Michael Snape

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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.

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Number of Pages:: 482
Release Date:: 2007-11-15
Publication Date:: 2007-11-15
Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1843833468
ISBN13:: 9781843833468
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 884 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 30 cm

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