Catholics, Military Service, and Violence in Great Britain during the First World War.
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 121750
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- 'Glaubenskämpfe: Katholiken und Gewalt im 19. Jahrhundert' (Battles over Belief: Catholics and Violence in the 19th Century.
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- ISBN
- 9783525101582
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/geschichte-der-neuzeit/53145/glaubenskaempfe
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- During the nineteenth century, military service played an important role in promoting Catholic interests in Great Britain. However, the First World War revealed deep-seated political divisions among Catholics in Britain and the wider Empire. Given this vulnerability, Catholic soldiers in the British Army served as an important vindication of Catholic loyalty. It also made them exemplars of Catholic piety in a national religious milieu that became increasingly susceptible to Catholic influences. Ultimately, the violence of the war spawned a Catholic narrative of the conflict which shrouded political divisions in a religious rhetoric that celebrated the triumph of the Faith itself.