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Preachers Present Arms

The Role of the American Churches and Clergy in World War I and II with Some Observations on the War in Vietnam

By: Ray H. Abrams

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Preachers Present Arms

The Role of the American Churches and Clergy in World War I and II with Some Observations on the War in Vietnam

By: Ray H. Abrams

Preachers Present Arms is the result of many years of research in libraries, religious periodicals (including many obscure ones), newspaper clippings, innumerable pamphlets, sermons, and addresses of the war periods. Pertinent books on the subject run into the hundreds of volumes. Many of the startling facts in Preachers Present Arms are the result of personal interviews and correspondence both at home and abroad. Over the span of nearly two thousand years, the institution of the Christian church has been eager to convert the whole world to its own interpretation of the will of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. In so doing it has been confronted with one crisis after another. Most of the time, as the pages of history will testify, it has floundered in utmost confusion. From one point of view, its gravest and most tragic years have been those in which this church identified itself and participated gladly in some of the bloodiest wars of all times, all to carry out the will of the Almighty. The Crusades and Holy Wars of the past are stark reminders. Yet, even in our own time these holy wars continue. This book is the startling and terrifying story of the part played in this country by the churches and the clergy during the first World War-the consciences of ministers conscripted, innocent men railroaded to prison, churches turned into recruiting stations. In Preachers Present Arms a skilled analyst of social forces examines the merciless regimentation of ideas and conduct inherent in modern warfare. His sobering account of the surrender of the ministers to war hysteria in that dark period of the world's history-from 1914 to 1918-is in no sense an attack upon the clergy. Rather, in demonstrating how preachers were caught in the vortex of war madness, the book transcends the immediate field of its inquiry and demonstrates the influence of war psychology on the leaders and molders of public opinion. Included in this thought-provoking volume is a brief description of the churches and the clergy in World War II, and an analysis of the situation with respect to organized religion and our participation in the war in Vietnam.

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1606089358

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9781606089354

Preachers Present Arms

The Role of the American Churches and Clergy in World War I and II with Some Observations on the War in Vietnam

By: Ray H. Abrams

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The Role of the American Churches and Clergy in World War I and II with Some Observations on the War in Vietnam

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School Wide Book Events

How to Make Them Happen

By: Virginia Ray

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School Wide Book Events

How to Make Them Happen

By: Virginia Ray

A handbook of easy school-wide one-day events that provide reading celebrations for elementary and middle school age students. The ideas are designed to be used for National Library Week, Read Across America Day, Reading Is Fundamental, and other local reading celebrations and events. They are also applicable for just day-by-day reading promotions in libraries. The programs are presented in depth with ideas, bibliographies, original skits, etc. Events are applicable for use in public and school library settings. Grades K-6.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313058814

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9780313058813

Excess Baggage

Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace

By: Ellen Rosskam,Ray H Elling

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Excess Baggage

Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace

By: Ellen Rosskam,Ray H Elling

Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism. An occupation greatly affected by new forms of work organization and management practices-caught in the throes of rapid change due to international competition, alliances, mergers, and the application of cost-efficiency strategies-check-in work has been undermined in recent years by the adverse effects of liberalization and technological change.By peeling away the veneer of glamour associated with airport check-in work, Rosskam reveals how changes in work organization in this sector have de-skilled, disempowered, and ultimately demoralized workers. In "Excess Baggage", weaving through the psychological distress, physical pain from musculoskeletal disorders, strain, and violence that check-in workers experience and describe in their own words, a picture emerges of a job perceived to be "safe," "clean," "glamour girl" work, but which is comparable to industrial workplaces that require heavy manual lifting, obligingly performed in skirts, dresses, and pretty little shoes.

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Routledge

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1351844504

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