The sharp and unforgiving suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, much less effectively addressed, without a comprehensive investigation of moral injury’s underlying causes in American culture and society.
And Then Your Soul is Gone exposes the threads of violence that tie together the naturalized dynamics of U.S. ways of war and militarization with collective practices of national distraction and self-deception. It shows how these same threads of violence are also tightly woven and sacralized in the tapestry of U.S. national identity, tragically concealing moral injury from greater consciousness, and sourcing its toxic growth in the very lives of those the nation claims it most highly esteems, our military service members and veterans.
Drawing on Claudia Card’s philosophical framework, moral injury here is characterized as an atrocity, ‘a foreseeable intolerable harm caused by culpable wrongdoing.’ These atrocities are shown to be flash-points revealing important truths regarding the unlivable consequences of U.S. war-culture and highlighting the urgent need to rethink the meaning of U.S. nationalism, desacralize violence, and support life.
And Then Your Soul is Gone will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and philosophy, military service members and veterans, concerned citizens, chaplains and religious leaders.
Tabla de materias
Table of ContentsPreface
Preface [+]ix-xii
Introduction
Moral Injury and the Triangle of Violence [+]1-26
Chapter 1
Moral Injury and U.S. War-culture [+]27-52
Chapter 2
Moral Injury and Structural Violence [+]53-95
Chapter 3
Moral Injury and Cultural Violence [+]97-137
Chapter 4
Moral Injury and Atrocity [+]139-176
Chapter 5
Toward Building a Different World: A National Swerve [+]177-226
End Matter
Notes227-261
Bibliography263-281
Index283-301
Sobre el autor
Kelly Denton-Borhaug is Professor in the Global Religions Department at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.Más ebooks del mismo autor / Editor
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