Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
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The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to take on new roles beyond providing religious services to the troops. Chaplains are now also required to engage the local citizenry and provide their commanders with assessments of the religious and cultural landscape outside the base and reach out to local civilian clerics in hostile territory in pursuit of peace and understanding.
In this edited volume, practitioners and scholars chronicle the changes that have happened in the field in the twenty-first century. Using concrete examples, this volume takes a critical look at the rapidly changing role of the military chaplain, and raises issues critical to U.S. foreign and national security policy and diplomacy.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Modern Military Chaplaincy in the Era of Intervention and Terrorism, Eric Patterson
Chapter 2: Yesterday and Today: Understanding the Role and Influence of the U.S. Military Chaplaincy, Pauletta Otis
Chapter 3: Chaplains Advising Warfighters on Culture and Religion, Dayne Nix
Chapter 4: Beginnings: The Army Chaplaincy Responds to the War on Terrorism, Eric Keller
Chapter 5: The Iraq Inter-Religious Congress and the Baghdad Accords, Micheal Hoyt
Chapter 6: Building National Capacity: Training Afghan Chaplains, Steven Moore
Chapter 7: Religious Advisement and Religious Leader Engagement in the Horn of Africa, Jon Cutler
Chapter 8: Advising Generals at the CENTCOM Center of Excellence, David West
Chapter 9: Spiritual Resiliency: Findings from the U.S. Army “Health of the Force” Surveys (2008-present), Eric Wester
Chapter 10: Spiritual and Professional Formation Under Stres
Product details
| Published | 07 Aug 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 242 |
| ISBN | 9781442235397 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 5 b/w illustrations; 8 b/w photos; 12 tables; |
| Dimensions | 237 x 160 mm |
| Series | Peace and Security in the 21st Century |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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