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- Title
In the Presence of a "Cloud of Witnesses": Coming to Terms with Death in War Memorial Dedication Ceremonies.
- Authors
Brook, Anne C.
- Abstract
In the aftermath of the First World War, thousands of war memorials were unveiled and dedicated by communities ranging from individual sports clubs to whole cities. Much attention has been given to the addresses given on those occasions but less to the other elements of the ceremonies. This article uses the survival of a number of complete orders of service, together with more fragmentary evidence relating to other events, to analyse the religious themes chosen by various groups in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, a town in the North of England. Focussing on hymns and other musical content, three main thematic clusters emerge: God's support for the nation at war; the tribulations of life, particularly the pain of bereavement; and death, resurrection, and the continuing community between the dead and the living. The relative importance of each of those strands is the focus of this study.
- Subjects
HUDDERSFIELD (England); WAR memorials; WORLD War I -- Religious aspects
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2018.31.1.169