Institutional Religion Index
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The Church of England was inseparable from the Georgian state that fought the French Wars: its bishops sat in the House of Lords, its clergy administered the parishes that collected recruits, and naval chaplains ministered to crews whose religious practice was shaped by the same Established Church culture. The Roman Catholic Church, meanwhile, navigated the Revolutionary period as both victim (in France, where the Civil Constitution of the Clergy triggered civil war) and instrument of counter-revolutionary politics (in Spain and the Papal States, where it mobilised resistance to Napoleon). This subdomain examines religious institutions as organisations with politics, resources, and interests that intersected with naval and military history. It connects to Religion and State (institutional entanglement), Religion and War (churches mobilising for conflict), and Government Systems (the confessional state).
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- Naval Chaplains — Duties, Character, and the Spiritual Life of Ships
- The Civil Constitution of the Clergy — French Church, Revolution, and the Vendée War
- Church of England Loyalism — Sermons, Patriotism, and Anti-Revolutionary Preaching
- Catholic Emancipation Debate — Irish Sailors, Religion, and Political Tension
- The Pope and Napoleon — Concordat, Coronation, and Papal Captivity
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- See also: MOC_Religion_Church
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