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The Clergy in Khaki
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the Great War. Alongside Blimpish generals they are generally characterized as embodiments of the callous futility and hypocrisy that left the battlefields of the Western Front littered with corpses. Yet, as historians have begun to reassess the motives and performance of generals, so this collection... more...
God and the British Soldier
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 39.95Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain?s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them. Historians of the First and Second World Wars have consistently underestimated... more...
The Redcoat and Religion
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95This 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... more...
Secularisation in the Christian World
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 89.95The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different... more...
Representational Deficits in SLA
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 149.00The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of ?representational deficits? in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms... more...
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