"Faith in the Fight" tells a story of religion, soldiering,
suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and
experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through
their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how
religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and
women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and
shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the
surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war
as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national
redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these
Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith
and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission.
And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not
fundamentally alter them.
Revising the conventional view that the war was universally
disillusioning, "Faith in the Fight" argues that the war in fact
strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and
that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar
orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor
wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many
Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of
"reillusionment."
Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and
Americans' experience of the First World War, "Faith in the Fight"
encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's
wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding
of religion and violence in American history.
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