American Army Chaplaincy

Author : Ronit Y. Stahl
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674981316
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlisting Faith written by Ronit Y. Stahl and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the United States Army Chaplain Corps written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Loveland
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900797
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945 written by Anne Loveland and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America’s armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister to survivors, offer counsel on everything from troubled marriages to military bureaucracy, and serve as families’ points of contact for wounded or deceased soldiers—all while risking the dangers of combat alongside their troops. In this thoughtful study, Anne C. Loveland examines the role of the army chaplain since World War II, revealing how the corps has evolved in the wake of cultural and religious upheaval in American society and momentous changes in U.S. strategic relations, warfare, and weaponry. From 1945 to the present, Loveland shows, army chaplains faced several crises that reshaped their roles over time. She chronicles the chaplains’ initiation of the Character Guidance program as a remedy for the soaring rate of venereal disease among soldiers in occupied Europe and Japan after World War II, as well as chaplains’ response to the challenge of increasing secularism and religious pluralism during the “culture wars” of the Vietnam Era.“Religious accommodation,” evangelism and proselytizing, public prayer, and “spiritual fitness”provoked heated controversy among chaplains as well as civilians in the ensuing decades. Then, early in the twenty-first century, chaplains themselves experienced two crisis situations: one the result of the Vietnam-era antichaplain critique, the other a consequence of increasing religious pluralism, secularization, and sectarianism within the Chaplain Corps, as well as in the army and the civilian religious community. By focusing on army chaplains’ evolving, sometimes conflict-ridden relations with military leaders and soldiers on the one hand and the civilian religious community on the other, Loveland reveals how religious trends over the past six decades have impacted the corps and, in turn, helped shape American military culture.

Author : Earl F. Stover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up from Handymen written by Earl F. Stover and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Parker C. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Its European Antecedents to 1791 written by Parker C. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy John Honeywell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaplains of the United States Army written by Roy John Honeywell and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Army Chaplaincy written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army Chaplaincy written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard M. Budd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496203682
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serving Two Masters written by Richard M. Budd and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how the professional and fully institutionalized chaplaincy of today's military came about would do well by consulting Budd's book." --Bradley L. Carter, On Point. Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for themselves within the U.S. Army and Navy that would best enable them to minister to the fighting men. Despite the chaplaincy's long history of accompanying American armies into battle, there has never been consensus on its role within the military, among the churches, or even among chaplains themselves. Each of these constituencies has had its own vision for chaplains, and these ideas have evolved with changing social conditions and military growth. Moreover, chaplains, acting as members of one profession operating within the specific environment of another, raised questions of whether they could or should integrate themselves into the military. In effect they had to learn to serve two institutional masters, the church and the government, simultaneously. Budd provides a history of the struggle of chaplains to professionalize their ranks and to obtain a significant measure of autonomy within the military's bureaucratic structure--always with the ultimate goal of more efficiently bringing their spiritual message to the troops.

Author : Jacqueline E. Whitt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612941
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing God to Men written by Jacqueline E. Whitt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War