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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... revival ensue ? A number of British soldiers have attributed the absence of a revival to the poor performance of British chaplains in the war . Take , for instance , C. E. Montague's oft quoted lament : The men came under [ the ...
... revival is attributable to the failure of British chaplains , one would expect to find evi- dence of revivals among troops not ministered to by British chaplains . The American chaplain Edmund J. Cleavland argued , " There is not the ...
... revival issue in the context of the Great War . According to Lambert , revivals are " cultural forma- tions " that are produced when a number of local community revivals are un- derstood and presented as part of a general revival . This ...
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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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