TY - BOOK ID - 119271684 TI - Narratives of trauma and moral agency among Christian post-9/11 veterans PY - 2023 SN - 9783031310829 PB - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and the social sciences. KW - Christian sociology. KW - Religion and sociology. KW - Psychology, Military. KW - Feminist theology. KW - Social Scientific Studies of Christianity. KW - Sociology of Religion. KW - Military Psychology. KW - Feminist Theology. KW - Military psychology KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Sociology, Military KW - Military morale KW - Operational psychology KW - Theology, Feminist KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Christian social theory KW - Social theory, Christian KW - Sociology, Christian KW - Church and the social sciences KW - Social sciences and Christianity KW - Social sciences KW - Moral injuries KW - Veterans KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Religious life KW - Religion And Sociology KW - Clinical Psychology KW - Theology KW - Christianity KW - Social Science KW - Psychology KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119271684 AB - Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member’s ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma. The military experience compels them to navigate multiple identities, from citizen to warrior and back. Their religious identity, sometimes rooted in a civilian religious community, can be altered by military participation. Through a series of inductive, in-depth qualitative interviews, Suitt explores how varied religious resources and potentially traumatic events affect the lives of post-9/11 veterans who once or currently identified as Christian. Adding to existing research on moral injury, it traces how military chaplains, ethics education, just war theory rhetoric, and formal religious practice supplied by the military alter the course of service members’ moral lives. These narrative trajectories reveal how veterans use Christian faith or other systems of meaning-making to understand war and their identities as service members and veterans. ER -