{"product_id":"faith-in-the-fight-jonathan-h-ebel-9780691162188","title":"Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaith in the Fight\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, \u003ci\u003eFaith in the Fight\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, \u003ci\u003eFaith in the Fight\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan H. Ebel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691162182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691162188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d","brand":"Jonathan H. Ebel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925621604607,"sku":"9780691162188","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3978606c-f14a-4972-a971-435b55a28bc7.jpg?v=1681078359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/faith-in-the-fight-jonathan-h-ebel-9780691162188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}