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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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The Break (Paperback)
Richard Blake
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R281
R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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It's Wednesday the 7th March 2018 - in the mainland UK. Everywhere
else, it's June 1065. No one knows what caused The Break eleven
months ago, but there's no sign of its end. England is settling
into its new future a reindustrialising concentration camp. The
rest of the world is watching...waiting...curious...Jennifer thinks
her family survived The Hunger because of their smuggling business
- tampons and paracetamol to France, silver back to England. Little
does she know what game her father was really playing, as she
recrosses the Channel from an Impromptu mission of her own. Little
can she know how her life has already been torn apart.Who has taken
Jennifer's parents? Where are they? What is the Home Secretary up
to with the Americans? Why is she so desperate to lay hands on
Michael? Will Jesus Christ return to Earth above Oxford Circus?
When will the "Doomsday Project" go live?Can the Byzantine Empire
and the Catholic Church take on the British State, and win?All will
be answered - if Jennifer can stay alive in a post-apocalyptic
London terrorised by cannibals, by thugs in uniform, and by
motorbike gangs of Islamic suicide bombers.
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).
The second adventure with vain, amoral, and sexually voracious
seventh-century scholar Aelric 610AD. The bloodthirsty Emperor
Phocas is preparing for the greatest battle of his life. Enemy
armies are racing closer to attack his fortress, the golden city of
Constantinople, and traitors within plot his downfall. Clinging to
power by masterminding a campaign of terror, he is running out of
funds, allies, and time--but he has one card left to play. Aelric,
a naive and ambitious young clerk from Britain, is sent to
Constantinople ostensibly on a mission to copy old texts for the
Church of Rome. On his arrival he discovers the terrible dangers
lurking behind the shining streets and glittering facades. A pawn
in a secret conspiracy that will change the course of history, he
can only rely on his wits, charm, and fighting skills to stay
alive.
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Standing In The Fire (Paperback)
Richard Blake Thomas; Edited by Anthony Younes; Contributions by Randy E Henderson
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R323
R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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Fleeing the country in its headlong rush to war in Vietnam, a young
American drops out of school and goes to Paris to write. After a
year and a half, he realizes that if you have to work to live
there, Paris is a lot like any other city, except that it's full of
Americans who came there to write. One night he and a friend go to
the Paris Hilton to attend a lecture on a "great new movement that
is sweeping the world." A month later the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
invites him to India to attend a three-month teacher-training
course on Transcendental Meditation. Based on journals Blakely kept
at the time, the second half of this book is an eye-witness account
of that gathering on the banks of the Ganges in the spring of 1968,
which Blakely describes as "a lot like Woodstock but without all
the people and the noise, and lasting a lot longer." While this
book is primarily a personal journey, coming to terms with a
crucial period in the author's life, it also provides a close-up
portrait of the Maharishi, from someone who caught a glimpse of the
wizard behind the curtain. In addition, it contains vignettes of
other people who also happened to attend that course in
Rishikesh---including George Harrison, John Lennon, Mia Farrow, and
Mike Love---that readers will find entertaining and informative.
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