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The article reviews the changes in the method of selecting the Chaplain General. It argues that over time the process has become the preserve of the army and not the churches.
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Why is it important?
The article used information obtain under FOI to look at changes in British army chaplaincy command and control in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It argued that chaplaincy was being taken over by the army and was no longer under the control of the British churches.
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This page is a summary of: ‘Command and Control’ in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department: how Changes in the Method of Selecting the Chaplain General of the British Army have Altered the Relationship of the Churches and the Army, Religion State & Society, March 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2011.546505.
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