{"product_id":"9781621900122","title":"Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945","description":"\u003cbr\u003eArmy chaplains have long played an integral part in America’s armed forces. In addition\u003cbr\u003e to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual\u003cbr\u003e support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister\u003cbr\u003e to survivors, offer counsel on everything from troubled marriages to military bureaucracy,\u003cbr\u003e and serve as families’ points of contact for wounded or deceased soldiers—all while\u003cbr\u003e risking the dangers of combat alongside their troops. In this thoughtful study, Anne C.\u003cbr\u003e Loveland examines the role of the army chaplain since World War II, revealing how the\u003cbr\u003e corps has evolved in the wake of cultural and religious upheaval in American society and\u003cbr\u003e momentous changes in U.S. strategic relations, warfare, and weaponry.\u003cp\u003eFrom 1945 to the present, Loveland shows, army chaplains faced several crises that\u003cbr\u003e reshaped their roles over time. She chronicles the chaplains’ initiation of the Character\u003cbr\u003e Guidance program as a remedy for the soaring rate of venereal disease among soldiers in\u003cbr\u003e occupied Europe and Japan after World War II, as well as chaplains’ response to the challenge\u003cbr\u003e of increasing secularism and religious pluralism during the “culture wars” of the\u003cbr\u003e Vietnam Era.“Religious accommodation,” evangelism and proselytizing, public prayer,\u003cbr\u003e and “spiritual fitness”provoked heated controversy among chaplains as well as civilians in\u003cbr\u003e the ensuing decades. Then, early in the twenty-first century, chaplains themselves experienced\u003cbr\u003e two crisis situations: one the result of the Vietnam-era antichaplain critique, the\u003cbr\u003e other a consequence of increasing religious pluralism, secularization, and sectarianism\u003cbr\u003e within the Chaplain Corps, as well as in the army and the civilian religious community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy focusing on army chaplains’ evolving, sometimes conflict-ridden relations with\u003cbr\u003e military leaders and soldiers on the one hand and the civilian religious community on the\u003cbr\u003e other, Loveland reveals how religious trends over the past six decades have impacted the\u003cbr\u003e corps and, in turn, helped shape American military culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050985505008,"sku":"9781621900122","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621900122_p0.jpg?v=1769905005","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621900122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}