Böcker av Michael Snape

First full-scale biography of the most senior English soldier to die in a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War, revealing the courage, faith and fortitude of an unjustly forgotten hero of the British army.

An authoritative and timely book shedding new light on the role of religion during World War II and its impact on post-war American society.

The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. This title brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia.

Analyzing military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, this book challenges widely-held views and presents the most comprehensive study available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Drawing on material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, this work presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain's vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them. It is useful for students and scholars of military history, British history, and religion.