Enlisting Faith : : How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America / / Ronit Y. Stahl.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Terminology
- Prologue: The Mixed-Up Dog Tags of Private Leonard Shapiro
- 1. Mobilizing Faith
- 2. "Christ Is the Melting Pot for All Our Differences"
- 3. The Boundaries of Religious Citizenship
- 4. Chaplain Jim Wants You!
- 5. The Military-Spiritual Complex
- 6. "Maybe God Is an American"
- 7. Moral Objection and Religious Obligation
- 8. Fighting with Faith
- Epilogue: Between God and the American State
- Abbreviations
- Archival Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index