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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Main Author: Hardy, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2020]
In: 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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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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.
ISSN:2056-7731
Contains:Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2019.1650501