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Ecclesiasticus, War Graves, and the Secularization of British Values
- Author(s):
- Alana Vincent (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
- Subject(s):
- Culture, History, Bible, Reader-response criticism, World War (1914-1918), Literature, Commonwealth countries, Area studies, War memorials
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Cultural history, Reception of the Bible, World War I literature, Commonwealth studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/b8x9-pw66
- 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.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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