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The redcoat and religion : the forgotten history of the British soldier from the age of Marlborough to the eve of the First World War / Michael Snape.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snape, M. F. (Michael Francis), 1968-
- Series:
- Christianity and Society in the Modern World
- Christianity and society in the modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Army--Religious life--History.
- Great Britain.
- Soldiers--Religious life--Great Britain--History.
- Soldiers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period, and demonstrates that the British soldier was highly susceptible to religious influences long before the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny rendered the subject of wider public concern.In<E
- Contents:
- The soldier, religion, and the rise of Methodism, 1702-93
- The soldier and society, 1793-1914
- The churches and the soldier, 1793-1914
- The soldier and the churches, 1793-1914
- Religion and the British military experience, 1793-1914.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-00742-3
- 1-283-96405-8
- 0-203-63191-9
- 1-136-00734-2
- 9780203631911
- OCLC:
- 826854770
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