This book is among the first collective monographs dealing with chaplaincy-the key nexus between society, its religion(s), and its armed forces. A variety of contributions based on the materials from diverse Asian and Western societies demonstrates how chaplaincies both mirror the attitudes of their societies towards military and religion and contribute to shape them.
This book is among the first collective monographs dealing with chaplaincy-the key nexus between society, its religion(s), and its armed forces. A variety of contributions based on the materials from diverse Asian and Western societies demonstrates how chaplaincies both mirror the attitudes of their societies towards military and religion and contribute to shape them.
Torkel Brekke is Deputy Director and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He is the author of several books, among them Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market (2016) and Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (2012). Vladimir Tikhonov is Professor at the University of Oslo. Recently, he published Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity (2015) and co-edited (with Torkel Brekke) Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia (2012).
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* Series Note ix * Acknowledgements x * Introduction: Military Chaplaincy in Comparative Perspective - Torkel Brekke 1 * 1: Religious Teachers in the Indian Army- Torkel Brekke 15 * 2: Religious Plurality and the Slovenian Military Chaplaincy -Gorazd Andrejc and George R. Wilkes 39 * 3: Paths Untrodden in Japanese Buddhist Chaplaincy to the Imperial Military - Micah Auerback 62 * 4: 'Operation Dhamma': The Sri Lankan Armed Forces as an instrument of Buddhist Nationalism -Iselin Frydenlund 81 * 5: Military Rabbis as Community Builders: The Israeli Case - Ori Goldberg 104 * 6: The Divine Is in the Details: Managing Religion in Pluralizing Militaries Kim Philip Hansen 123 * 7: Pluralistic Permutations: The Thai Buddhist Military Chaplaincy - Michael Jerryson 145 * 8: From Confessional to Concessional: The Adaptation to Religious Pluralism by the Chaplaincy of the Norwegian Armed Forces Bård Mæland and Nils Terje Lunde 162 * 9: Religion in the Sepoy Army of British India- Kaushik Roy 185 * 10: Twilight of the Padres: The End of British Military Chaplaincy in India - Michael Snape 202 * 11. South Korean Military Chaplaincy in the 1950-70s: Religion as Ideology? - Vladimir Tikhonov 228 * Index 259 * Notes on Editors and Contributors 268
* Series Note ix * Acknowledgements x * Introduction: Military Chaplaincy in Comparative Perspective - Torkel Brekke 1 * 1: Religious Teachers in the Indian Army- Torkel Brekke 15 * 2: Religious Plurality and the Slovenian Military Chaplaincy -Gorazd Andrejc and George R. Wilkes 39 * 3: Paths Untrodden in Japanese Buddhist Chaplaincy to the Imperial Military - Micah Auerback 62 * 4: 'Operation Dhamma': The Sri Lankan Armed Forces as an instrument of Buddhist Nationalism -Iselin Frydenlund 81 * 5: Military Rabbis as Community Builders: The Israeli Case - Ori Goldberg 104 * 6: The Divine Is in the Details: Managing Religion in Pluralizing Militaries Kim Philip Hansen 123 * 7: Pluralistic Permutations: The Thai Buddhist Military Chaplaincy - Michael Jerryson 145 * 8: From Confessional to Concessional: The Adaptation to Religious Pluralism by the Chaplaincy of the Norwegian Armed Forces Bård Mæland and Nils Terje Lunde 162 * 9: Religion in the Sepoy Army of British India- Kaushik Roy 185 * 10: Twilight of the Padres: The End of British Military Chaplaincy in India - Michael Snape 202 * 11. South Korean Military Chaplaincy in the 1950-70s: Religion as Ideology? - Vladimir Tikhonov 228 * Index 259 * Notes on Editors and Contributors 268
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