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G.I. Messiahs - Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion (Hardcover)
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G.I. Messiahs - Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion (Hardcover)
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Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps
individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic
experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines
cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our
notions of what it means to be an American soldier are not just
strongly religious, but strongly Christian. Drawing on a vast array
of sources, he further reveals the effects of soldier veneration on
the men and women so often cast as heroes. Imagined as the
embodiments of American ideals, described as redeemers of the
nation, adored as the ones willing to suffer and die that we, the
nation, may live-soldiers have often lived in subtle but
significant tension with civil religious expectations of them. With
chapters on prominent soldiers past and present, Ebel recovers and
re-narrates the stories of the common American men and women that
live and die at both the center and edges of public consciousness.
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