Author: Stefani E. Barner
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738711942
Category : Neopagans
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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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: Anne Loveland
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621900797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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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: Ronit Y. Stahl
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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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: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101562811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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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: Ron E. Hassner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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This volume is the first to offer a comparative analysis of religion in militaries worldwide.
Author: Brian Bohlman
Publisher: Brian Bohlman
ISBN: 0976681900
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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A specially designed handbook that will encourage service members to reflect on their spoken promise, their source of strength, and their personal commitment. An excellent gift that will inspire the troops and preserve the core values of the U.S. Armed Forces. Appendix includes list of U.S. Military Oaths, Code of Conduct, Will to Survive, Flag Folding Ceremony, and much more. End-of-chapter reflection questions provided for individual and small group studies in an academic setting or a deployed environment.
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
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Author: Zac Miller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796095133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Faith in War the Soldiers Bible is a true story that takes place from 1967 through 2019. It is the first hand accounts of 7 U.S. Army combat veterans. These veterans fought in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Combined these veterans have 11 combat tours between them. Some of the awards they amassed on these tours include 3 bronze stars with V device for valor, 2 purple hearts, two combat infantryman’s badges and a combat action badge. The common link all these veterans share is that they all carried the same war torn pocket bible and by God’s grace all made it home alive.
Author: Concordia Publishing House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758605337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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DEVOTIONAL CONTAINS- A brief service for daily prayers- Psalms- Prayers- Hymns- Scripture lessons- Emergency Baptism and burial
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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