Ecclesiasticus, war graves, and the secularization of british values
This article reads the design of the British Imperial War Graves cemeteries in the context of the religious pluralism of the late Empire. Reviewing the deliberations of the design committee and parliamentary debates on the design of the cemeteries, it notes that the Christian character of the cemete...
| Subtitles: | Special Fascicle: The Bible in America and Britain at War |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 319-329 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kriegsgrab
/ Cemetery
/ Monument
/ Pluralism
/ Bible. Jesus Sirach 44,1-15
/ Great Britain
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics HB Old Testament KBF British Isles |
| Further subjects: | B
Pluralism
B Memorials B Kipling B Commonwealth B Ecclesiasticus B War graves |
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| Summary: | This article reads the design of the British Imperial War Graves cemeteries in the context of the religious pluralism of the late Empire. Reviewing the deliberations of the design committee and parliamentary debates on the design of the cemeteries, it notes that the Christian character of the cemeteries was relatively muted, a design decision which caused no small amount of public and political controversy, but which permitted the cemeteries to present an image of a unified Empire. The paper argues that the choice of quotations specifically from the apocrypha was an important and deliberate aspect of this presentational strategy. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2017-0014 |