Enlisting faith : how the military chaplaincy shaped religion and state in modern America

Responsibility: Ronit Y. Stahl.
Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Copyright notice: ©2017
Physical description: x, 348 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Author/Creator: Stahl, Ronit Y., 1980- author.

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-332) and index.

Contents

Prologue: The mixed-up dog tags of Private Leonard Shapiro
Mobilizing faith
"Christ is the melting pot for all our differences"
The boundaries of religious citizenship
Chaplain Jim wants you!
The military-spiritual complex
"Maybe God is an American"
Moral objection and religious objection
Fighting with faith
Epilogue: Between God and the American state.

Summary

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.
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