The author examines U.S. demographic trends in religious affiliation and compares them with those of the U.S. Army to help the U.S. Armys Office of the Chief of Chaplains anticipate how the religious needs of the population it serves might change...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in War, Society, and the Military
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496226839)
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who served in World War II. For President Franklin D. Roo...Lasīt vairāk
David Power Conyngham, David J. Endres, William B. Kurtz
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268105297)
Shortly after the Civil War ended, David Power Conyngham, an Irish Catholic journalist and war veteran, began compiling the stories of Catholic chaplains and nuns who served during the war. His manuscript, Soldiers of the Cross, is the full...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781783273966)
Few men spent the whole of World War One serving in the British Expeditionary Force, from its initial deployment in August 1914 to its demobilization in February 1919. One who did was the Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne, the bishop of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Saint Benedict Press, ISBN-13: 9781505109658)
For nearly 200 years—standing alongside our heroic military men and women—have been heroic Catholic priests risking their lives to carry wounded soldiers to safety and to console, anoint, and absolve the dying. Heroic Cat...Lasīt vairāk
Eric Patterson, Dayne Nix, Douglas L. Carver, Jon Capt. Cutler, Ron E. Hassner, LaShanda D. Hess-Hernandez, Mike Hoyt, Eric Keller, Jason Klocek, S.K. Moore...
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. By looking at the rapidly changing role of the military chapl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2014, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469612942)
During the latter half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. A broad-based and ecumenical institution in the post-World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally co...Lasīt vairāk
As a policy maker in the US Department of State, Hersping (political science, Kansas State U.) came into contact with Soviet political officers and wondered if they served the same function he himself had many years earlier as a chaplin in the Navy....Lasīt vairāk
This innovative study offers the first-ever comparison of the military roles played by commissars, political officers, and chaplains in military settings ranging from the armies of Cromwell, the Jacobins, the Nazis, the Soviets, and the United States...Lasīt vairāk
