British Christianity and the Second World War

Examines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young during the Second World War.

List of contents

1 Introduction - Michael Snape
2 The British State and Spiritual Mobilization during the Second World War - Philip Williamson
3 Radio Religion: The British Broadcasting Corporation and Faith Propaganda at 'Home' and 'Overseas' in the Second World War - Hannah Elias
4 Getting the Message Out: Publishing 'British Christianity' 1939-1943 - Keith Robbins, completed by Stuart Bell
5 Christianity, Culture, and the Universities in Wartime England - Matthew Grimley
6 Mass Observation, Religion, and the Second World War: When 'Cooper's Snoopers' Caught the Spirit - Clive D. Field
7 British Sunday Schools during the Second World War - Caitriona McCartney
8 Principled or Pragmatic? English Nonconformist Opposition to Pacifism in the Inter-War Period - Stuart Bell
9 Where Loyalties Lie: English Catholic Responses to Allied Strategic Bombing in the Second World War - Joshua Madrid
10 British Christians and the Morality of Killing in the Second World War - John Broom
11 Jewish­-Christian Relations in the Second World War - Jonathan M. Lewis
12 Agents of Occupation or Reconciliation? Army Chaplains in Germany in the Summer of 1945 - Peter Howson

Index

About the author

Edited by Michael Snape and Stuart Bell

Product details

• Assisted by: Stuart (Author) Bell (Editor), Canon Professor Michael Snape (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2023
• EAN: 9781837650194
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-019-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 163 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works