The Faith Of The American Soldier

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101562811
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faith of the American Soldier written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes through the mind of an American warrior spiritually and religiously when facing the enemy? Treading where few books have gone, The Faith of the American Soldier examines the religious and spiritual issues in America's wars, and then considers what is lost to our military through a secular approach to battle. Special attention is paid to the current war in Iraq, where Mansfield reaches surprising conclusions about the need for structured faith on the battlefield-and how its absence contributes to catastrophes like those at Abu Ghraib prison.

Author : Jonathan H. Ebel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162182
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Fight written by Jonathan H. Ebel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission. And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not fundamentally alter them. Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, Faith in the Fight argues that the war in fact strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of "reillusionment." Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, Faith in the Fight encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding of religion and violence in American history.

Author : Jonathan H. Ebel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176708
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G.I. Messiahs written by Jonathan H. Ebel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Incarnating American civil religion -- Symbols known, soldiers unknown -- In honored glory, known but to God -- Saint Francis the Fallen -- The Vietnam War as a christological crisis -- Safety, soldier, scapegoat, savior -- Conclusion : of flesh, words, and wars

Author : Ezequiel L. Ortiz
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 086534857X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Jose written by Ezequiel L. Ortiz and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 the Japanese invaded the Philippines with overwhelming force and forced the surrender of American troops at Bataan and Corregidor. Prisoners of war were subjected to brutal captivity and thousands did not survive. This is the story of an American soldier who survived and became a hero. When American troops liberated the Niigata POW camp after the Japanese surrender, Corporal Joseph O. Quintero greeted them with a homemade American flag that had been sewn together in secrecy. The son of Mexican immigrants, Joseph Quintero grew up in a converted railroad caboose in Fort Worth, Texas, and joined the Army to get $21 a month and three meals a day. He manned a machine gun in the defense of Corregidor before his unit was captured by the Japanese. When prisoners of war were transported to Japan, Joseph survived a razor-blade appendectomy on the "hell ship" voyage. In the prison camp he cared for his fellow prisoners as a medic and came to be known as Don Jose. Joseph's narrative is an enlisted man's view of the war with first-hand descriptions of conditions in the POW camps and personal glimpses of what he and his buddies did, endured and talked about. The authors have drawn on other histories and official documents to put his story into perspective and focus on a little-known chapter of World War II.

Author : Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974531
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onward Christian Soldiers? written by Clyde Wilcox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have money, influence, power - and they turn out to vote. "They" are groups like Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America (all parts of the Christian Right. But, are they a serious threat to religious liberty, bent on creating a theocratic state, or the last defenders of religion and family values in America). Bringing the story of the religious right up to the Obama administration, this revised fourth edition explores the history of the movement in twentieth and early twenty-first century American politics. The authors review the expansion of the Christian Right through George W. Bush's second administration and evaluate how the religious right fared in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Although figureheads of the religious right remain in the news, their power in Washington may be declining, and the authors consider the fate of the religious right under the Obama administration. Examining how the religious right both does and does not fit into the proper role of religious groups in American politics, Onward Christian Soldiers? is an essential addition to the Dilemmas in American Politics series.

Author : Ellwood C. Nance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436706674
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith of Our Fighters written by Ellwood C. Nance and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404103818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Soldier written by Stephen Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together through word and song, Stephen Mansfield, with Toby Keith and Chuck Cannon, pay tribute to the multitudes so deserving of recognition. Categorized with themes like: Courage, Honor, Faith, Sacrifice, and Prayer, each has related stories that will inspire any heart.

Author : George Mills
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098034929
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Footprints of an American Soldier written by George Mills and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Footprints of an American Soldier contains some fiction and nonfiction stories. The stories are that of Clay Mills, who finds himself to be on this journey looking for his soul mate. He started his journey looking for a new soul mate about three years ago after going through a divorce, and while he tries to makes his way through this desert in which he has found himself, he tells short stories about the time he spent with his hometown unit. He hopes that you find his stories to be entertaining. May God bless one and all who read this book.

Author : Stefani E. Barner
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738711942
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Magick in the Armed Forces written by Stefani E. Barner and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2008 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the difficulties pagans face in the miliary, offers an excerpt from the Wicca section of the U.S. Army Chaplain's Handbook, and includes spells and ceremonies for such events as deployment, going into battle, returning home, and a pagan militaryfuneral.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745956742
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great and Holy War written by Philip Jenkins and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War, and the lasting impact it had on Christianity and world religions more extensively in the century that followed. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. A steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was served to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Philip Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels, apparitions, and the supernatural, was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting remarkable incidents and characters - from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide - Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis. We cannot understand our present religious, political, and cultural climate without understanding the dramatic changes initiated by the First World War. The war created the world's religious map as we know it today.