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G.I. Messiahs

Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

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G.I. Messiahs

Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

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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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Yale University Press

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0300216351

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Faith in the Fight

Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

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Faith in the Fight

Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

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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Princeton University Press

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0691162182

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From Dust They Came

Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

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From Dust They Came

Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

From Dust They Came tells the story of Dust Bowl refugees' experiences in the camps that New Deal reformers built throughout agricultural California to redeem migratory farm workers from lives of vulnerability and filth, and from pre-modern ways of living and believing"--

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NYU Press

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G.I. Messiahs

Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

By: Jonathan H. Ebel

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From Dust They Came

Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California

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Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California

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Faith in the Fight

Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War

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