UID:
almafu_9961143911502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-80010-878-8
Series Statement:
Studies in modern British religious history ; volume 45
Content:
This volume presents a major reappraisal of the role of Christianity in Great Britain between 1939 and 1945, examining the influence of Christianity on British society, statecraft, politics, the media, the armed forces, and on the education and socialization of the young. Its chapters address themes such as the spiritual mobilization of nation and empire; the limitations of Mass Observation's commentary on wartime religious life; Catholic responses to strategic bombing; servicemen and the dilemma of killing; the development of Christian-Jewish relations, and the predicament of British military chaplains in Germany in the summer of 1945. By demonstrating the enduring - even renewed - importance of Christianity in British national life, 'British Christianity and the Second World War' also sets the scene for some major post-war developments.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023.
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Footnotes -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The British State and Spiritual Mobilization during the Second World War -- Radio Religion: The British Broadcasting Corporation and Faith Propaganda at 'Home' and 'Overseas' -- Getting the Message Out: Publishing 'British Christianity' 1939-43 -- Christianity, Culture, and the Universities in Wartime England -- Mass Observation, Religion, and the Second World War: When 'Cooper's Snoopers' Caught the Spirit -- British Sunday Schools during the Second World War -- Principled or Pragmatic? English Nonconformist Opposition to Pacifism in the Inter-War Period -- Where Loyalties Lie: English Catholic Responses to Allied Strategic Bombing in the Second World War -- British Christians and the Morality of Killing in the Second World War -- Jewish-Christian Relations in the Second World War -- Agents of Occupation or Reconciliation? Army Chaplains in Germany in the Summer of 1945 -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-83765-019-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781800108783
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800108783/type/BOOK
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