TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitt,Jacqueline E.
TI  - Bringing God to men: American military chaplains and the Vietnam War 
SN  - 9781469614526
AV  - DS559 .B756 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Chaplains
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Military chaplains
KW  - United States
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Social change
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Consensus and Civil Religion --; Duty and Relationships --; Conflict and Identity --; Liturgy and Interpretation --; Discourse and Debate --; Reflection and Reconciliation --; Dissent and Mission; 2; b
N2  - "During the latter half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. A broad-based and ecumenical institution in the post-World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally conservative and evangelical. In both eras--before and after the conflict in Vietnam--the political, martial, and religious views of the chaplaincy mirrored those of mainstream religious and military culture. During the Vietnam War, though, the chaplaincy underwent an exceptional divergence from this conformation to the mainstream. Because of their dual allegiances to their denominations and to the military, chaplains found themselves thrown into the middle of the heated contention surrounding the conflict. Drawing from previously unpublished memories, periodicals, official histories, and oral interviews, Jacqueline Whitt charts the role of the chaplaincy in mediating conflicts between their often anti-war faiths and the military. In this benchmark study, Whitt shows how Vietnam War-era chaplains served as vital links between diverse communities, sometimes working to reconcile--both personally and publicly--conflicting worldviews, while creating religious contexts unique to combat based on shared experience rather than traditional theologies"--
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