RT Article
T1 Journeying to Heaven with The Children's Encyclopaedia: Arthur Mee's Territorial Spirituality for Young Pilgrims
JF Baptist quarterly
VO 51
IS 2
SP 56
OP 68
A1 Hardy, John
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1694141063
AB 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.
K1 England
K1 Pilgrim
K1 Romantic
K1 scenery
K1 Spirituality
K1 territorial
DO 10.1080/0005576X.2019.1650501