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 The Redcoat and Religion Snape argues that religion was of
significant, even defining, importance to the British soldier and
reveals the enduring strength and vitality of religion in
contemporary British society, challenging the view that the popular
religious culture of the era was wholly dependent upon the presence
and activities of women.
Students of British history, military history, and religion will
all find this an insightful resource for their studies.
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