G Kurt Piehler

A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781496226839
• ISBN-10: 1496226836
• Artikelnr.: 61433840

Autorenporträt

G. Kurt Piehler is director of the Institute on World War and the Human Experience and an associate professor of history at Florida State University. He is author of Remembering War the American Way and World War II.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Promoting the Free Exercise of Religion
1. Mobilizing a Faithful Nation for War
2. Mobilizing Chaplains and Building Chapels
3. Turning Civilians into GIs
4. Pilgrims to the Four Corners of the World
5. Religion and the Ethical Conduct of War
6. Fear, Faith, and the Will to Fight
7. The Question of Race and Religion
8. Patriarchy and the Religious Life of Military Women
9. The Wounded
10. The Dead
11. Prisoners of War
12. Religion and Reconciliation with Enemies
Conclusion: Legacies of War
Notes
Bibliography
Index