[Rezension von: Piehler, G. Kurt, A religious history of the American GI in World War II]
On Flag Day 1954, Congress amended the US Flag Code, adding the phrase “one nation under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. Less than a year later, Will Herberg published Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology—popularizing the idea of the United States as a “triple-melting...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 290-292 |
| Review of: | A religious history of the American GI in World War II ([Lincoln] : [University of Nebraska Press], 2021) (Carter, Brad)
A religious history of the American GI in World War II (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021) (Carter, Brad) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Military chaplaincy
/ USA
/ World War
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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Book review
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| Summary: | On Flag Day 1954, Congress amended the US Flag Code, adding the phrase “one nation under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. Less than a year later, Will Herberg published Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology—popularizing the idea of the United States as a “triple-melting pot” in which the three titular Abrahamic faiths could enjoy equal claims to an American identity grounded in a shared civil deity. G. Kurt Piehler’s A Religious History of the American GI in World War II credits this Cold War “embrace of tri-faith pluralism” to the largely successful implementation of a “Rooseveltian vision of the free-exercise of religion” within the US military during the World War II (pp. 5, 7) ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad014 |