Churches, chaplains and the Great War /
This book is an international comparative study of the British, German and French military chaplains during the First World War. The role and position of the chaplaincies in the armies, as well as the problems they encountered and the solutions they sought in their daily work in and behind the lines...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in First World War history.
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Table of Contents:
- Churches and chaplains in the First World War
- Supporting war: the spiritual opportunity
- Comparing chaplains
- Church, state and nation in 1914
- Church and state
- Church and society
- Church and nation
- Religious justification of war
- War enthusiasts: God's community falls apart
- Wrath, purification, mission: religious interpretation of war
- The chaplaincies in 1914
- Basic organisation
- Church, state and nation in one army
- Welcome to the war: the mobilisation of the chaplains
- Controversy about the number of chaplains
- The training of the chaplains
- The chaplain within the ranks
- In the lines or in the rear
- Chaplains, officers, soldiers
- Discussion on the clergy in arms
- Chaplains on the battlefield
- Gathering the flock
- Organising religious services
- The sermon
- Communication and burial services
- Pastoral care
- Competition
- Hopes and disappointments: reflections on the war effort
- Three evaluations
- What went wrong
- Change.