British Christianity and the Second World War

MICHAEL SNAPE is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. STUART BELL is an Honorary Research Fellow of St John's College, Durham University. MICHAEL SNAPE is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University. STUART BELL is an Honorary Research Fellow of St John's College, Durham University. MATTHEW GRIMLEY is associate professor in modern history at the University of Oxford and fellow and tutor at Merton College. CAITRIONA MCCARTNEY is an Honorary Fellow at the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University. PETER HOWSON is the author of Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher. The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke and Muddling Through. The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War One. For Boydell's Church of England Record Society Series, he edited The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne (2019). As a member of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department Howson served in Germany during the period 1977to 1997.

• 1 Introduction - Michael Snape 2 The British State and Spiritual Mobilization during the Second World War - Philip Williamson3 Radio Religion: The British Broadcasting Corporation and Faith Propaganda at 'Home' and 'Overseas' in the Second World War - Hannah Elias4 Getting the Message Out: Publishing 'British Christianity' 1939-1943 - Keith Robbins, completed by Stuart Bell5 Christianity, Culture, and the Universities in Wartime England - Matthew Grimley6 Mass Observation, Religion, and the Second World War: When 'Cooper's Snoopers' Caught the Spirit - Clive D. Field7 British Sunday Schools during the Second World War - Caitriona McCartney8 Principled or Pragmatic? English Nonconformist Opposition to Pacifism in the Inter-War Period - Stuart Bell9 Where Loyalties Lie: English Catholic Responses to Allied Strategic Bombing in the Second World War - Joshua Madrid10 British Christians and the Morality of Killing in the Second World War - John Broom11 Jewish­-Christian Relations in the Second World War - Jonathan M. Lewis12 Agents of Occupation or Reconciliation? Army Chaplains in Germany in the Summer of 1945 - Peter HowsonIndex

Each of the contributors provides an insightful reflection on the experience of British Christianity during the war. The book helps to paint a better picture of religious sensibilities in time of war and the ways it was manifested in the home, in the armed forces, both at home and abroad. Each chapter is concise and well researched enabling the book to be accessible to many readers