The Religion of Englishness: Puritanism, Providentialism, and “National Character,” 1918–1945
The Religion of Englishness: Puritanism, Providentialism, and “National Character,” 1918–1945
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英国性的宗教:清教主义、天意主义和“民族性格”,1918-1945
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2007
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M. Grimley
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M. Grimley
In Michael Powell’s and Emeric Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale (1944), the towers of Canterbury Cathedral standing amid a blitzed city provided a recurrent motif. The film’s culmination—and the plot’s resolution—occurred in and around the cathedral, with the protagonists experiencing a series of miraculous interventions, followed by the closing scene of a platoon of soldiers singing “Onward, Christian Soldiers” before departing to France. Salisbury Cathedral was the subject of one of Frank Newbould’s “Your Britain—Fight for It Now” posters, as well as featuring in Lawrence Whistler’s stained-glass window depicting a fighter airplane at Moreton in Dorset. This depiction of churches was not just “deep England” bucolicism. Urban scenes were also portrayed, notably in John Piper’s pictures of damaged churches in Coventry, Bath, Bristol, and London. Most famously, Her-