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The cross and the trenches : religious faith and doubt among British and American great war soldiers / Richard Schweitzer.
LIBRA D639.R4 S35 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweitzer, Richard, 1964-
- Series:
- Contributions in military studies 0883-6884 ; no. 225.
- Contributions in military studies, 0883-6884 ; no. 225
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Soldiers--Religious life--Great Britain.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Religious life--United States.
- Soldiers--Religious life.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I Faith
- 1. The British and American Churches and the War 3
- 2. The Spectrum of Religious Faith 17
- 3. Chaplains 63
- 4. Religion by Rank 79
- 5. Soldiers' Religious Responses within the Narrative Structure of Battle 129
- 6. Religion on the Home Front 141
- Part II Doubt
- 7. The Costs of Clerical Nationalism, the Church of England's Chaplains, the Roman Catholic Converts, and the American YMCA 163
- 8. The Revival That Never Came, a Conjecture 185
- 9. The Spectrum of Religious Doubt 195
- 10. Woodrow Wilson and the Prince of Peace Motif 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313318387
- OCLC:
- 50738192
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