Enlisting Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlisting Faith write by Ronit Y. Stahl. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Enlisting Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ronit Stahl traces the ways the U.S. military struggled with, encouraged, and regulated religious pluralism and scrambled to handle the nation’s deep religious, racial, and political complexity. Just as the state relied on religion to sanction combat missions and sanctify war deaths, so too did religious groups seek validation as American faiths.
Enlisting Faith
Enlisting Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlisting Faith write by Ronit Y. Stahl. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Enlisting Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A century ago, as the United States prepared to enter World War I, the military chaplaincy included only mainline Protestants and Catholics. Today it counts Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Christian Scientists, Buddhists, Seventh-day Adventists, Hindus, and evangelicals among its ranks. Enlisting Faith traces the uneven processes through which the military struggled with, encouraged, and regulated religious pluralism over the twentieth century. Moving from the battlefields of Europe to the jungles of Vietnam and between the forests of Civilian Conservation Corps camps and meetings in government offices, Ronit Y. Stahl reveals how the military borrowed from and battled religion. Just as the state relied on religion to sanction war and sanctify death, so too did religious groups seek recognition as American faiths. At times the state used religion to advance imperial goals. But religious citizens pushed back, challenging the state to uphold constitutional promises and moral standards. Despite the constitutional separation of church and state, the federal government authorized and managed religion in the military. The chaplaincy demonstrates how state leaders scrambled to handle the nation’s deep religious, racial, and political complexities. While officials debated which clergy could serve, what insignia they would wear, and what religions appeared on dog tags, chaplains led worship for a range of faiths, navigated questions of conscience, struggled with discrimination, and confronted untimely death. Enlisting Faith is a vivid portrayal of religious encounters, state regulation, and the trials of faith—in God and country—experienced by the millions of Americans who fought in and with the armed forces.
Enlisting for Christ and the Church
Enlisting for Christ and the Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlisting for Christ and the Church write by Howard Agnew Johnston. This book was released on 1919. Enlisting for Christ and the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers [3 volumes]
Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers [3 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers [3 volumes] write by Christopher R. Mortenson. This book was released on 2019-06-14. Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers [3 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most important, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home? This comprehensive book will answer all of those questions and much more, with separate chapters on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II in Europe, World War II in the Pacific, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and War on Terror, and the Iraq War. Each chapter includes such topical sections as Conscription and Volunteers, Training, Religion, Pop Culture, Weaponry, Combat, Special Forces, Prisoners of War, Homefront, and Veteran Issues. This work also examines the role of minorities and women in each conflict as well as delves into the disciplinary problems in the military, including alcoholism, drugs, crimes, and desertion. Selected primary sources, bibliographies, and timelines complement the topical sections of each chapter.
Religion and Social Problems
Religion and Social Problems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Social Problems write by Titus Hjelm. This book was released on 2011-01-21. Religion and Social Problems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.
