05942cam a2200769Ki 4500 ocn883663704 OCoLC 20200709060419.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140715s2014 tnua ob 001 0deng d VALIL eng rda pn VALIL P@U YDXCP EBLCP N$T 9781621900795 electronic bk. 1621900797 electronic bk. 9781621900122 1621900126 (OCoLC)883663704 1083151 (N$T) n-us--- UH23 .L69 2014eb HIS 027130 bisacsh TEC 025000 bisacsh 355.3/470973 23 N$TA Loveland, Anne C., 1938- author. Change and conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945 / Anne C. Loveland. Change and conflict in the United States Army Chaplain Corps since 1945 First edition. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014] 1 online resource (xvii, 349 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Legacies of war Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Army chaplains in cultural transition -- Teaching the religion of democracy -- The sixties watershed -- Chaplains under fire -- Navigating the quagmire -- Ministering to the military institution -- "The conscience of the Army" -- Ministering on the battlefield -- Building soldier morale -- Addressing religious pluralism -- The 2005/2006 culture war -- Developing a culture of pluralism -- Epilogue. Description based on print version record. Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America's armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister to survivors, offer counsel on everything from troubled marriages to military bureaucracy, and serve as families' points of contact for wounded or deceased soldiers--all while risking the dangers of combat alongside their troops. In this thoughtful study, Anne C. Loveland examines the role of the army chaplain since World War II, revealing how the corps has evolved in the wake of cultural and religious upheaval in American society and momentous changes in U.S. strategic relations, warfare, and weaponry. From 1945 to the present, Loveland shows, army chaplains faced several crises that reshaped their roles over time. She chronicles the chaplains' initiation of the Character Guidance program as a remedy for the soaring rate of venereal disease among soldiers in occupied Europe and Japan after World War II, as well as chaplains' response to the challenge of increasing secularism and religious pluralism during the "culture wars" of the Vietnam Era."Religious accommodation," evangelism and proselytizing, public prayer, and "spiritual fitness"provoked heated controversy among chaplains as well as civilians in the ensuing decades. Then, early in the twenty-first century, chaplains themselves experienced two crisis situations: one the result of the Vietnam-era antichaplain critique, the other a consequence of increasing religious pluralism, secularization, and sectarianism within the Chaplain Corps, as well as in the army and the civilian religious community. By focusing on army chaplains' evolving, sometimes conflict-ridden relations with military leaders and soldiers on the one hand and the civilian religious community on the other, Loveland reveals how religious trends over the past six decades have impacted the corps and, in turn, helped shape American military culture. Anne C. Loveland is T. Harry Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800--1860 and American Evangelicals and the U. S. Military, 1942--1993. United States. Army. Chaplain Corps History 20th century. United States. Army. Chaplain Corps History 21st century. United States. Army Chaplains History. United States. Army Religious life. Soldiers Religious life United States. United States. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533532 United States. Army. Chaplain Corps. fast (OCoLC)fst00569383 Chaplains. fast (OCoLC)fst00852224 Religious life. fast (OCoLC)fst01094112 Soldiers Religious life. fast (OCoLC)fst01125300 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 HISTORY / General bisacsh HISTORY / Military / Other bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Print version: Loveland, Anne C., 1938- author. Change and conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945. First edition 9781621900122 (DLC) 2013022460 (OCoLC)846912750 Legacies of war. Freading http://www.freading.com/ebooks/details/r:download/b3JnLmJpYmxpb3ZhdWx0Ljk3ODE2MjE5MDA3OTU= http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621900795/ Project MUSE http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=1733905 Ebook Library EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1083151 Project MUSE MUSE muse33090 YBP Library Services YANK 11723866 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1733905 EBSCOhost EBSC 1083151 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 56553 56553