LEADER 04197nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910459362703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-3500-3 010 $a1-282-93624-7 010 $a9786612936241 010 $a1-282-47314-X 010 $a9786612473142 010 $a0-691-13992-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400835003 035 $a(CKB)2670000000013366 035 $a(EBL)483541 035 $a(OCoLC)609855966 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000359953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11260097 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10317558 035 $a(PQKB)10266872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483541 035 $a(OCoLC)653109681 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36844 035 $a(DE-B1597)446855 035 $a(OCoLC)979579288 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400835003 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483541 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10376728 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293624 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000013366 100 $a20090623d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFaith in the fight$b[electronic resource] $ereligion and the American solider in the great war /$fJonathan H. Ebel 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16218-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Redemption Through War -- $tChapter 2. Chance The Man-Angel And The Combat Numinous -- $tChapter 3. Suffering, Death, And Salvation -- $tChapter 4. Christ'S Cause, Pharaoh'S Army -- $tChapter 5. Ideal Women In An Ideal War -- $tChapter 6. "There Are No Dead" -- $tChapter 7. "The Same Cross In Peace": The American Legion, The Ongoing War, And American Reillusionment -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFaith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission. And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not fundamentally alter them. Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, Faith in the Fight argues that the war in fact strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of "reillusionment." Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, Faith in the Fight encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding of religion and violence in American history. 606 $aSoldiers$xReligious life 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSoldiers$xReligious life. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918. 676 $a200 676 $a940.478 700 $aEbel$b Jonathan H.$f1970-$01050755 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459362703321 996 $aFaith in the fight$92480831 997 $aUNINA