Michael Snape

A Church Militant

Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s (spanning imperial expansion, colonial conflict, both World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780192848321
• ISBN-10: 0192848321
• Artikelnr.: 66174325

Autorenporträt

Michael Snape was appointed Lecturer in Church History at Westhill College of Higher Education in 1994. From 1999 to 2015 he was Lecturer in Church History and then Reader in Religion, War and Society at the University of Birmingham, and is currently the inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. This is his sixth academic monograph and is based on his 2020 Hensley Henson Lectures at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: 'Marching as to War': The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance
2: 'Faithful, True, and Bold': The First World War
3: ''Gainst all Disaster': The Second World War
4: 'Aflame with Faith, and Free': The Cold War
5: 'The Great Surrender Made': Remembrance and Memorialisation
Afterword
'Change and Decay'? The Church of England into the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography