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9780199470747

Military Chaplaincy in an Era of Religious Pluralism Military—Religious Nexus in Asia, Europe, and USA

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    9780199470747

  • ISBN10:

    019947074X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2017-06-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Torkel Brekke is Deputy Director and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He is the author of several books, among them Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market (2016) and Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (2012).

Vladimir Tikhonov is Professor at the University of Oslo. Recently, he published Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity (2015) and co-edited (with Torkel Brekke) Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia (2012).

Table of Contents


Series Note ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Military Chaplaincy in Comparative Perspective - Torkel Brekke 1
1. Religious Teachers in the Indian Army- Torkel Brekke 15
2. Religious Plurality and the Slovenian Military Chaplaincy -Gorazd Andrejc and George R. Wilkes 39
3. Paths Untrodden in Japanese Buddhist Chaplaincy to the Imperial Military - Micah Auerback 62
4. 'Operation Dhamma': The Sri Lankan Armed Forces as an instrument of Buddhist Nationalism -Iselin Frydenlund 81
5. Military Rabbis as Community Builders: The Israeli Case - Ori Goldberg 104
6. The Divine Is in the Details: Managing Religion in Pluralizing Militaries Kim Philip Hansen 123
7. Pluralistic Permutations: The Thai Buddhist Military Chaplaincy - Michael Jerryson 145
8. From Confessional to Concessional: The Adaptation to Religious Pluralism by the Chaplaincy of the Norwegian Armed Forces Bård Maeland and Nils Terje Lunde 162
9. Religion in the Sepoy Army of British India- Kaushik Roy 185
10. Twilight of the Padres: The End of British Military Chaplaincy in India - Michael Snape 202
11. South Korean Military Chaplaincy in the 1950-70s: Religion as Ideology? - Vladimir Tikhonov 228
Index 259
Notes on Editors and Contributors 268

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