Narratives of trauma and moral agency among Christian post-9/11 veterans / Thomas Howard Suitt, III.
2023
BV4588 .S85 2023
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Narratives of trauma and moral agency among Christian post-9/11 veterans / Thomas Howard Suitt, III.
ISBN
9783031310829 electronic book
3031310829 electronic book
9783031310812
3031310810
3031310829 electronic book
9783031310812
3031310810
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
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English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-31082-9 doi
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BV4588 .S85 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.9/0697
Summary
Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member's ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma. The military experience compels them to navigate multiple identities, from citizen to warrior and back. Their religious identity, sometimes rooted in a civilian religious community, can be altered by military participation. Through a series of inductive, in-depth qualitative interviews, Suitt explores how varied religious resources and potentially traumatic events affect the lives of post-9/11 veterans who once or currently identified as Christian. Adding to existing research on moral injury, it traces how military chaplains, ethics education, just war theory rhetoric, and formal religious practice supplied by the military alter the course of service members' moral lives. These narrative trajectories reveal how veterans use Christian faith or other systems of meaning-making to understand war and their identities as service members and veterans.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Military Chaplains and the Two-Collar Problem
3. Christian Influence and Variation in Military Ethics Education
4. The Religious Life of the US Military
5. Finding Resonance: Religion and Moral Injury
6. Religion, Trauma, and PTSD
7. Coming Home and the Evolution of Religious Identities
8. Conclusion. .
2. Military Chaplains and the Two-Collar Problem
3. Christian Influence and Variation in Military Ethics Education
4. The Religious Life of the US Military
5. Finding Resonance: Religion and Moral Injury
6. Religion, Trauma, and PTSD
7. Coming Home and the Evolution of Religious Identities
8. Conclusion. .