War Sermons

Gilles Teulié, Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

285 Seiten

2009 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-0546-9 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays ponders upon the intricate relations between the military and the spiritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. In order to analyse human attitudes towards conflicts, it is necessary to dwell upon the nebulous area where the religious and political spheres interweave so tightly that they become virtually impossible to distinguish. Indeed, despite remaining the responsibility of the state, the political decision to go to war depends heavily on some spiritual underpinning since, without a moral, ethical, or religious justification, it stands for gratuitous violence and is often equated with aggression. Situated as they are at the intersection of religious and political awareness, war sermons are an invaluable source of information regarding societies in times of conflict. Indeed, whether favourable or hostile to the waging of war, preachers participated in the edification of parishioners’ opinion. The writing, delivering or reading of sermons shaped the mental process of peoples who sought their ministers’ moral and spiritual guidance in times of crisis. This collection of essays offers contributions to the renewed debate on the function of war, its representations and its rhetoric as generators of identity.

Gilles Teulié is Professor of British and Commonwealth Studies at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille). He has written extensively on South African history and the links between religion and war. He published a book on the Afrikaners and the Anglo-Boer War (Montpellier University Press, 2000). He was the editor of Writing History in South Africa, (University of Bayreuth Press, 2003), Religious Writings and War (Montpellier University Press, 2006), and “Victorian Representations of War” (international journal Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007)For more details, please see: http://www.univ-provence.fr/gsite/document.php?pagendx=1451andproject=lermaLaurence Lux-Sterritt is a lecturer of early modern history at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille); her research interests focus on religion and more specifically Catholicism in early modern England and France. After completing her PhD at Lancaster University, she published a monograph entitled Redefining Religious Life. French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth Century Catholicism (Ashgate, 2005). She is currently completing an edited collection exploring the issues of gender and Catholicism in Europe (Palgrave, forthcoming), in collaboration with Dr Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck College, London).For further details, please see:http://www.univ-provence.fr/gsite/document.php?pagendx=1449andproject=lerma

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.6.2009
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4438-0546-7 / 1443805467
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-0546-9 / 9781443805469
Zustand	Neuware