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Enlisting Faith

How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America

Ronit Y. Stahl

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$39.95 • £28.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674972155

Publication Date: 11/06/2017

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384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

25 halftones

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  • HISTORY: Military: United States
  • HISTORY: United States: 20th Century
  • RELIGION: Religion, Politics & State
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology of Religion
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Policy: Military Policy

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Ronit Y. Stahl is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  • At Foreign Policy, read an excerpt from Enlisting Faith about U.S. Navy chaplains’ experiences during Passage to Freedom, a 1954–5 effort to ferry primarily Catholic Vietnamese from North to South
  • Read an interview with Ronit Stahl at Religion in American History
  • Read Stahl’s Washington Post essay using the controversy over whether transgender individuals can serve in the U.S. military as a reminder that the military can act as both a war machine and a machine for social change
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