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Churches, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
Series: - History of Warfare, Volume: 160
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American troops sent to Northern Ireland in 1942 were warned against discussing religion and politics with their hosts. Historical writing on wartime Northern Ireland appears to have partially heeded that advice by focusing on politics to the near-exclusion of religion. This book, the first detailed exploration of religion in wartime Northern Ireland, examines how churches responded to the challenges of international conflict. It presents an analysis of mid-twentieth century Northern Ireland that attends to the complexity of religion which has more commonly been portrayed in binary and crudely homogeneous terms.
Matthew Houston, Ph.D. (2019), Queen’s University Belfast, is Lecturer in Church History at Union Theological College, Belfast. His published research includes articles and essays on the role of religion in mid-twentieth century Northern Ireland in context with the United Kingdom.
Academic libraries, specialists, and post-graduate students, particularly those interested in the history of Christianity in twentieth-century Northern Ireland or the Second World War more generally.