With God on our side : British Christian responses to the Spanish Civil War / Ben Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Ben (Benjamin Kyle), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Religious aspects--Influence.

Spain.

Christianity--Great Britain.

Christianity.

Protestantism.

Christians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book uses Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to analyse the role and importance of Christianity in interwar Britain. This conflict is used as a proxy through which to discuss the status of Christianity in Britain because the Nationalists claimed to be fighting a Holy War against communist-atheism. This representation meant that the conflict was of considerable interest to Christians in Britain. - - British Christians frequently used the war in Spain to discuss their broader concerns. Many leading Catholics and fascistic Protestants argued that the events in Spain were an exaggerated form of the communist threat to Britain; by contrast, many Protestants used the war to voice their wider criticisms of Catholicism. Catholics responded to these chastisements by reasserting that members of their faith were patriots who resisted communist internationalism and atheism. Christian responses to the war, therefore, increased pre-existing tension between Protestantism and Catholicism. Similarly, Catholicismas already difficult relationship with Labour was adversely affected by these movementsa reactions to the conflict. Labouras involvement with the Basque children operations showed that it wanted to maintain relatively harmonious relations with Catholicism, but these efforts were unsuccessful. - - Ultimately, this study uses British Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to indicate that Christianity was actually an important aspect of interwar British society. - -

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5108-6

OCLC:

855505202