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Religion in the British Navy, 1815-1879 - Piety and Professionalism (Hardcover, New)
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Religion in the British Navy, 1815-1879 - Piety and Professionalism (Hardcover, New)
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Shows how the rise of evangelical religion in the navy helped
create a new kind of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in
a higher set of values. This book examines how, as the nineteenth
century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety,
was seen in the British navy less as eccentric and marginal and
more as an essential ingredient of the character looked for in
professional seamen. The book traces the complex interplay between
formal religious observance, such as Sunday worship, and pockets of
zealous piety, showing how evangelicalism gradually earned less
grudging regard, until inthe 1860s and 1870s it became a dominant
source of values and a force for moral reform. Religion in the
British Navy explains this shift, outlining how Arctic expeditions
showed the need for dependability and character, how Health Returns
revealed the full extent of sexual licence and demonstrated the
urgency of moral reform, and how manning difficulties in the
Russian War of 1854-1856 showed that a modern fleet required a new
type of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set
of values. The book also discusses how the navy, with its newly
awakened religious sensibilities, played a major role in the
expansion of Protestant missions globally, in exploration,convict
transportation, the expansion of imperial frontiers, and worldwide
maritime policing operations. Fervent piety had an effect in all
these areas - religion had helped develop a new kind of manliness
where piety as well asdaring had a place. RICHARD BLAKE is the
author of Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 (Boydell 2008).
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