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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... poem " The Last Post " : " They ask each night of God- / Whether the dead within the burial ground / Will ever overthrow their crosses grey . " God's failure to answer this plea in the poem's last stanza suggests Vera's disappointment ...
... poem " The Boy in Church " sug- gests that religious faith may be crushed by combat . In the poem the narra- tor / boy has his " pleasant " religious contemplation destroyed by a " blast " that resembles an artillery barrage.213 While ...
... poem " The Last Laugh , " Owen realized that his own defiance of the Church of England was not a sentiment shared by all of his fellow soldiers . As a result , the revised poem omits the statement of defiance- " tho ' not in prayer ...
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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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