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Military Chaplains and the Two-Collar Problem
This chapter explores the role and history of military chaplains. Religion has been a part of the US military since its infancy under the Continental...
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The Religious Life of the US Military
This chapter investigates formal and informal religious resources veterans have available to them. In addition to religious authorities, symbols,...
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Christian Influence and Variation in Military Ethics Education
This chapter focuses on education and moral training. As service members enter the military, training plays a vital role in instilling military...
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US Military Prostitution and Sexual Ethics for Peace and Justice
This chapter searches for peace-and-justice-oriented sexual ethics by critically analyzing American soldiers’ interactions with local Korean women in...
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The Military-Nation and Conscientious Objectors
The phenomenon of conscientious objection to military service raises the question of how far a State can force its citizens into obligations which...
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An Antiracist and Antiwar Feminist Theology: When the US Military Empire Divides Us
In search of antiracist and antiwar feminist theology, this chapter critically interrogates the role of US militarism in consolidating white...
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Narratives of Trauma and Moral Agency among Christian Post-9/11 Veterans
Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member’s ethical...
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Coming Home and the Evolution of Religious Identities
This chapter explores the difficulty of new veterans transitioning back to the civilian sector, where their warrior identity has less purchase in...
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Religion, Trauma, and PTSDPTSD
This chapter explores various sources of trauma and the development of PTSD. Contrary to narratives of moral injury, in stories of physical injury,...
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Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the book’s findings while suggesting a path forward rooted in normative military ethics. Having analyzed the lived...
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The Traumatic Twentieth Century of Korea: Japanese Imperialism, the Korean War, and the Korean Military Governments
The chapter aims to deliver the modern history of Korea from a new perspective, concentrating on Koreans’ traumatic experiences in the twentieth...
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The Memories of Killing and Interfaith Spiritual Activism
Through an imagined interfaith dialogue between German feminist theologian Dorothee Soelle and Buddhist peace activist Sister Chan Khong, this...
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American Modernity: Audiovisual Mediatization of Korean Shamanism
The period of audiovisual mediatization in Korea covers the colonial modernity and postcolonial modernity for more than a century, from the Japanese...
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Finding Resonance: Religion and Moral Injury
The military experience presents novel moral dilemmas and traumatic experiences in the lives of service members. This chapter explores how service...
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Map** the Terrain
Young Jewish men are growing up in a changing society—70 years of societal change with cultural diversity, liberalisation of attitudes towards...
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The Prologue and Roman Conquest: Bartolomé de Las Casas and Roman Representation
This chapter reads the prologue as an anti-Roman story. By exploring the conquest of the Americas as narrated by Bartolomé de Las Casas and various...
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Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology
This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the...
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Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450–1800
Prior to 1800, Catholic missionary engagement with sub-Saharan Africa reflected the energies of Portuguese missionaries. Thwarted by Muslim...
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Naṣrallah and the Power of Martyrdom
This chapter covers the rise of Hezbollah and its political and ideological development since the 1980s. The discussion examines the movement’s...
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Epilogue: “Aprontaremos Las Validjas” Shall We Start Packing the Suitcases?
Turkey is a regular news feature in the world media. And within this interest, one of the subjects that most engages the Western press is the current...