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Despite narratives of secularization, it appears that the British
public persistently pay attention to clerical opinion and
continually resort to popular expressions of religious faith, not
least in time of war. From the throngs of men who gathered to hear
the Bishop of London preach recruiting sermons during the First
World War, to the attention paid to Archbishop Williams' words of
conscience on Iraq, clerical rhetoric remains resonant. For the
countless numbers who attended National Days of Prayer during the
Second World War, and for the many who continue to find the
Remembrance Day service a meaningful ritual, civil religious events
provide a source of meaningful ceremony and a focus of national
unity. War and religion have been linked throughout the twentieth
century and this book explores these links: taking the perspective
of the 'home front' rather than the battlefield. Exploring the
views and accounts of Anglican clerics on the issue of warfare and
international conflict across the century, the authors explore the
church's stance on the causes, morality and conduct of warfare;
issues of pacifism, obliteration bombing, nuclear possession and
deterrence, retribution, forgiveness and reconciliation, and the
spiritual opportunities presented by conflict. This book offers
invaluable insights into how far the Church influenced public
appraisal of war whilst illuminating the changing role of the
Church across the twentieth century.
Despite narratives of secularization, it appears that the British
public persistently pay attention to clerical opinion and
continually resort to popular expressions of religious faith, not
least in time of war. From the throngs of men who gathered to hear
the Bishop of London preach recruiting sermons during the First
World War, to the attention paid to Archbishop Williams' words of
conscience on Iraq, clerical rhetoric remains resonant. For the
countless numbers who attended National Days of Prayer during the
Second World War, and for the many who continue to find the
Remembrance Day service a meaningful ritual, civil religious events
provide a source of meaningful ceremony and a focus of national
unity. War and religion have been linked throughout the twentieth
century and this book explores these links: taking the perspective
of the 'home front' rather than the battlefield. Exploring the
views and accounts of Anglican clerics on the issue of warfare and
international conflict across the century, the authors explore the
church's stance on the causes, morality and conduct of warfare;
issues of pacifism, obliteration bombing, nuclear possession and
deterrence, retribution, forgiveness and reconciliation, and the
spiritual opportunities presented by conflict. This book offers
invaluable insights into how far the Church influenced public
appraisal of war whilst illuminating the changing role of the
Church across the twentieth century.
From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to
arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this
volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of
children and the position of children as placeholders for the
future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for
negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social
life, and children's involvement and non-involvement in religion
raises strong feelings because they represent the future of
religious and secular communities, even of society itself. The
Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood provides a rich
resource for students and scholars of this interdisciplinary field,
and addresses wider questions about the distinctiveness of
childhood and its religious dimensions in historical and
contemporary perspective. Divided into five thematic parts, the
volume provides classic, contemporary, and specially commissioned
readings from a range of perspectives, including the sociological,
anthropological, historical, and theological. Case studies range
from Augustine's description of childhood in Confessions, the
psychology of religion and childhood, to religion in children's
literature, religious education, and Qur'anic schools. - Religious
traditions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism,
and Buddhism, in the UK and Europe, USA, Latin America and Africa -
An introduction situates each thematic part, and each reading is
contextualised by the editors - Guidance on further reading and
study questions are provided on the book's webpage
From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to
arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this
volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of
children and the position of children as placeholders for the
future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for
negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social
life, and children's involvement and non-involvement in religion
raises strong feelings because they represent the future of
religious and secular communities, even of society itself. The
Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood provides a rich
resource for students and scholars of this interdisciplinary field,
and addresses wider questions about the distinctiveness of
childhood and its religious dimensions in historical and
contemporary perspective. Divided into five thematic parts, the
volume provides classic, contemporary, and specially commissioned
readings from a range of perspectives, including the sociological,
anthropological, historical, and theological. Case studies range
from Augustine's description of childhood in Confessions, the
psychology of religion and childhood, to religion in children's
literature, religious education, and Qur'anic schools. - Religious
traditions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism,
and Buddhism, in the UK and Europe, USA, Latin America and Africa -
An introduction situates each thematic part, and each reading is
contextualised by the editors - Guidance on further reading and
study questions are provided on the book's webpage
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