Thumbnail Image
Publication

Ecclesiasticus, War Graves, and the secularization of British Values

Vincent, Alana M.
Advisors
Editors
Other Contributors
Affiliation
University of Chester
EPub Date
Publication Date
2018-01-05
Submitted Date
Collections
Theology and Religious Studies
Show all metadata
Files
Thumbnail Image
Main article
Adobe PDF, 590.45 KB
Other Titles
Abstract
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.
Citation
Vincent, A. (2018). Ecclesiasticus, War Graves, and the secularization of British Values. Journal of the Bible and its Reception, 4(2).
Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal
Journal of the Bible and its Reception
Research Unit
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620672
DOI
10.1515/jbr-2017-0014
PubMed ID
PubMed Central ID
Type
Article
Language
en
Description
Series/Report no.
ISSN
2329-4434
EISSN
ISBN
ISMN
Gov't Doc
Test Link
Sponsors
Additional Links
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jbr.2017.4.issue-2/jbr-2017-0014/jbr-2017-0014.xml