Journeying to Heaven with The Children's Encyclopaedia: Arthur Mee's Territorial Spirituality for Young Pilgrims
Arthur Mee, Baptist editor of The Children's Encyclopaedia (CE), offers CE readers a 'territorial spirituality' for scenery pilgrims' between the wars. Devotee of English countryside, acculturated to believe that 'life's a journey', Mee encourages young travelle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Baptist quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 56-68 |
| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Pilgrim B England B territorial B scenery B Romantic |
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| Summary: | Arthur Mee, Baptist editor of The Children's Encyclopaedia (CE), offers CE readers a 'territorial spirituality' for scenery pilgrims' between the wars. Devotee of English countryside, acculturated to believe that 'life's a journey', Mee encourages young travellers to tread this 'enchanted land' as pilgrims, who slowly journey to old, quiet places (by rail) and visit 'sources of vision', becoming habituated to mystical, Romantic experience of the natural world in sacred spaces of hidden England. Basically Baptist (Bunyanesque?), Mee's 'pilgrimage' ethos is of its time, reflecting the open-air values of inter-war English evangelicals in the A.E.G.M. and Oxford Group. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2019.1650501 |