Ecclesiasticus, War Graves, and the secularization of British Values
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Vincent, Alana M.Affiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2018-01-05
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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 GruyterAdditional Links
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jbr.2017.4.issue-2/jbr-2017-0014/jbr-2017-0014.xmlType
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2329-4434ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1515/jbr-2017-0014
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