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Faith on the Home Front

Aspects of Church Life and Popular Religion in Birmingham. 1939-1945

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

The nature of religion on the domestic front in Britain during the Second World War has, hitherto, been relatively unexplored. This study focuses on Birmingham and describes wartime popular religion, primarily as recounted in oral testimony. The difference the War made to people’s faith, and the consolation wrought by prayer and a religious outlook are explored, as are the religious language and concepts utilised by the wartime popular media of cinema and wireless. Clerical rhetoric about the War and concerns to spiritualise the war effort are dealt with by an analysis of locally published sources, especially parish magazines and other religious ephemera, which set the War on the spiritual as much as the military plane. A final section of the study is devoted to measuring the extent of the influence of the churches in the creation of a vision for post-war Britain and Birmingham.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-03910-252-5 / 978-3039102525 / 9783039102525

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 29.05.2006

Seiten: 250

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Stephen Parker

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