The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War SoldiersBloomsbury Academic, 2003 M05 30 - 311 páginas The modernist historiographical model of the Great War neglects such traditional modes of thought as religious response to battle. Drawing on the testimony of over 500 British and American soldiers, Schweitzer provides an in-depth account of topics such as soldiers' prayers and biblical readings, as well as religious doubts. As a detailed snapshot of religion during the war, this study provides a crucial preamble to studies of the legacy of the Great War. |
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... morale as a means of ad- vancing the war effort . As members of a national church , Anglican chaplains may have been more susceptible to civil religion than Roman Catholic chap- lains whose allegiance was to a supranational church.64 ...
... morale . For example , he viewed the religiously affiliated YMCA as a valuable ally . There is no one factor contributing more to the morale of the army in France than the YMCA . The value of the organization cannot be overestimated ...
... morale . Still generalizations on the precise nature between religious faith and morale should not be drawn too starkly . Roland Leighton entered the trenches as a pa- triotic Deist ; he died disillusioned with the war but as a devout ...
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The British and American Churches and the War 3 | 3 |
The Spectrum of Religious Faith | 17 |
Chaplains | 63 |
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