This study explores the attitude of Anzac soldiers to the compulsory Church Parades, drawing evidence from a reading of the diaries and letters of over a thousand soldiers. It examines the complex reactions to Church Parade and draw conclusions about the varied attitudes of soldiers who recorded attending Church Parades in their letters and diaries. Far from producing definitive evidence for the irrelevance of religion to Australian soldiers during the Great War, the study highlights the range of religious attitudes, including the surprising number of soldiers who recorded positive responses to these parades. Even negative attitudes to Church Parades could stem not just from the secular soldiers, but also from the disappointment which religiously committed soldiers felt during times of forced religious activity. Responses to compulsory religious activities in the army do not uniformly support the irreligious nature of the Anzacs. Rather they show that a significant minority — larger and more expressive than generally imagined, and not all of them devout — valued religion and recorded their sentiments about it in their personal writings.

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精神危机的迹象或意外承诺的证据？第一次 AIF 中对强制性教堂游行的态度

这项研究探讨了澳新军团士兵对强制性教堂游行的态度，从阅读一千多名士兵的日记和信件中得出证据。它考察了人们对教堂游行的复杂反应，并得出了关于在信件和日记中记录参加教堂游行的士兵的不同态度的结论。该研究并没有提供关于一战期间宗教与澳大利亚士兵无关的确切证据，而是强调了宗教态度的范围，包括对这些游行有积极反应的士兵数量惊人。甚至对教堂游行的负面态度不仅可能源于世俗士兵，也可能源于虔诚的士兵在被迫进行宗教活动时感到的失望。对军队中强制性宗教活动的反应并不统一支持澳新军团的非宗教性质。相反，他们表明，有相当一部分人——比一般想象的更大、更有表现力，而且并非所有人都虔诚——重视宗教，并在他们的个人著作中记录了他们对宗教的看法。