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Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 - Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers (Hardcover)
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Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 - Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers (Hardcover)
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Religious activity flourished in the eighteenth-century navy; this
book examines the reasons why and its manifestations. The
Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to
his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a
fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact,
the navy of the Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars showed a level of
religious observance not seen since the days of Queen Anne.
Evangelical laymen provided one dynamic for this change:
concentrating first on public worship, they moved to active
proselytism insearch of converts amongst sailors, and in a third
phase developed a loose network of prayer groups in scores of
ships, uniting officers and seamen in voluntary gatherings that
transcended rank. This book explores the effect this new piety had
on discipline and human governance, on literacy, on the development
of chaplains' ministry and on the mindset of the officer corps. It
also looks at the larger question of how its values were absorbed
into the ethos of the navy as a whole. It draws on sources both
familiar and unusual - logs, letters, minutes, memoirs, tracts and
sermons, Regulations - to explain how evangelical influence
affected officer corps, lower deck andAdmiralty, showing how a
movement that began by promoting public worship at sea became an
agency for mass evangelism through literature, preaching and
off-duty gatherings, where officers and men met for shared Bible
reading and prayer a mere decade after the great Mutinies.
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