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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by David Jasper; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prelude; PART ONE: Remembering to Forget; 1. Remembering Amalek; 2. Antigone and Athenian War-dead: Body and Identity in the Greek Tradition; PART TWO: Mourning the Absent; Introduction; 3. Anne of Green Gables And the Transformation of Public Mourning; 4. Making Memory Solid: Jane Urquhart and The Canadian National Vimy Memorial; Interlude; PART THREE: Absent Mourners; 5. Worship in the Ruins; 6. Outside the Sanctuary; Coda; Bibliography; Back cover.

The twentieth century has been called a ""century of horror"". Proof of that, designation can be found in the vast and ever-increasing volume of scholarly work on violence, trauma, memory, and history across diverse academic disciplines. This book demonstrates not only the ways in which the wars of the twentieth century have altered theological engagement and religious practice, but also the degree to which religious ways of thinking have shaped the way we construct historical narratives. Drawing on diverse sources - from the Hebrew Bible to Commonwealth war graves, from Greek tragedy to post-

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