Enlisting Faith : How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America / Ronit Y. Stahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stahl, Ronit Y., 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military chaplains--United States--History--20th century.

Military chaplains.

Religion and state--United States--History--20th century.

Religion and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780674981317

0674981316

9780674981300

0674981308

OCLC:

1007291479