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Enlisting Faith

How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America

Ronit Y. Stahl

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ISBN 9780674972155

Publication Date: 11/06/2017

384 pages

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

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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
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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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