Summary:

Since men and women in battle not only face the prospect of their own
deaths but also must fashion a moral rationale for killing, the
battlefield is often a place of tremendous religious
transformation.Do men and women at war revert to the faith of their
youth or do they gravitate to the spirituality around them? Do they
lose all faith in the face of horror, or do they piece together an
informal faith that simply gets them through the fight? Are they
better warriors and do they experience less post-traumatic stress if
they believe their war is righteous and that they are agents of good?
These are the questions Stephen Mansfield addresses in The Faith of
the American Soldier.The book opens with the core question which lies
at the heart of the matter: what happens religiously to America’s
warriors when they go to battle, and what impact does this have on
the nation’s conduct of war? Mansfield surveys America’s wars from a
theological perspective in order to understand the theological
framing and religious rationale for each, where they came from, and
what effect they had on behavior on the battlefield.Mansfield
examines the religious nature of the warrior ethic today. There is a
new generation on the battlefield now, one raised with less religious
training and less connection to history than any that has come
before. Soldiers are left to their own religious choices to frame
their moral perspectives on war, on killing, and on the possibility
of death. Mansfield explores these choices through the lens of his
deep respect for the military – he comes from a long line of U.S.
Army officers – and from his background as a Ph.D. in American
history, and his more than twenty years’ experience as a pastor.

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Dewey Class: 956.704437 -- General history of Asia Middle East (Near East)

Book Details:

Physical Description: 5.1"x6.0"x0.8"; 0.2 lb
Edition Info: Audio CD; 2005-04-26

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