Experiences of Christianity in the Camps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
Camp Life ◽  
The Military ◽  
Tule Lake

Incarcerated Christians frequently thanked God for giving them the strength to endure the incarceration and developed a variety of faith communities to provide additional support. The focus of Chapter Four turns away from church leaders to examine how lay (non-ordained) Christians experienced camp life. Buddhists joined Protestants and Catholics to organize interfaith memorial services for Nikkei soldiers killed in action, while pacifists and others resisted the military draft. This chapter expands the book’s focus to highlight Christian youth culture at a camp in Arizona and the hardships at Tule Lake, where incarcerees attacked Japanese Christians for cooperating with camp officials. The roots of Asian American theologies began growing in the camps in response to this rejection and suffering.

The Haredi Scholar-Society and the Military Draft in Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 626-637
Author(s):  
Nissim Leon
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Image ◽  
The State ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Critical View ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Cultural Structure

This chapter examines the phenomenon of deferments of army enlistment in Israel of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men studying in yeshivas. The author claims that counter-nationalist argument enables us to understand the progress that the haredi scholar-society has made from a sectorial entity that kept itself removed from the nation-state, and viewed the state as an undesired political fact, to an entity that maintains its own counter-nationalism. This social cultural religious entity regards itself as a symbiotic or active partner in the national endeavor, specifically through the insular haredi ethos. The author employs the term counter-nationalism to describe an approach that takes a critical view of nationalism, but has in effect adapted it to the structure of the discourse, organization, and aims of the hegemonic national ideology. This perspective raises the possibility that the ultra-Orthodox are beginning to view themselves as maintaining a complementary partnership with the Israeli culture, and to a considerable extent have even constructed a similar cultural structure, a sort of mirror-image of the militaristic one. Moreover, this study even suggests that the haredi mainstream seeks recognition for itself as the spiritual elite troops of the State of Israel.

The Military Draft — Turkish Style

2017 ◽  
pp. 43-45
Author(s):  
Ephraim K. Jernazian
Keyword(s):  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military

Hiroshima/Vietnam/Tule Lake

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Timothy Yu
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Internment Camp ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Solidarity ◽  
Tule Lake

The origin of Asian American political identity was not in cultural nationalism but in diasporic consciousness, most notably in the concept of solidarity with Third World peoples struggling against imperialism around the globe. The poetry of Janice Mirikitani juxtaposes locations from Vietnam to Zimbabwe to the Tule Lake internment camp, making transnational political solidarity prior to, not dependent upon, racial identification. In contrast, the anthology Aiiieeeee!, often cited as the origin of Asian American literary politics, emphasizes the integrity of the individual writer over communal identification. Restoring Mirikitani’s place in the history of Asian American literature also restores a coalitional, transnational vision of Asian American politics that lays the groundwork for a contemporary poetics of the Asian diaspora.

Poking fun at heroes: American war and the death of the military comedy

2020 ◽  
pp. 175063522092227
Author(s):  
Andrew C Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Marked Decline ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military

Since the attacks of September 11 2001, there has been a marked decline in the number of military comedy films in American cinema. Films like Buffalo Soldiers, a film made prior to September 11 but released in 2003, show how this change first started. Whereas, prior to 2001, military comedies were generally accepted and even profitable, after 2001 the genre effectively disappeared and still to this day has not re-emerged despite military non-comedy films making a clear resurgence after 2008. In this article, the author explores how and why military comedies have declined over time by making comparisons of how popular both military comedy and non-comedy films were in prior periods and today. The purpose of this is to show how the decline of military comedies since 2001 is a symptom of a greater political trend within American political development, specifically the civil–military divide. As this divide has grown in the post-military draft period in the United States, an event like September 11 seems to have ruptured the general acceptability of laughing at the military, which remains improper in cinema to this day. Finally, he examines some of the political consequences of this lack of laughter at the military within the greater political and film studies literature, which include growing tacit support for the military and how the narratives within some of these films leave little room for American civilians to comedically view the military that defends them.

scholarly journals A US physicist and the military draft

Physics Today ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Author(s):  
William H. Southwell
Keyword(s):  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military

Economics of the Military Draft

1967 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 395 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Lee Hansen ◽  
Burton A. Weisbrod
Keyword(s):  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military

Alcohol consumption in men exposed to the military draft lottery: A natural experiment

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Goldberg ◽  
Margaret S. Richards ◽  
Robert J. Anderson ◽  
Miriam B. Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Draft Lottery ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals The Artistic Symbolism of the Chapel’s Lost Interior of the Greek-Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Roksolana Avdykovych
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

This paper looks at the artistic design of the chapel of the Greek Catholic Seminary in Lviv that was created after the earlier church was destructed in the military events of 1918. Articles in press written after the ceremony of the consecration, the records of greeting speeches of the church leaders who attended the ceremony, and the essays of art critics provide an important insight into the iconographical programme of the chapel and its functioning as the scared space. Rare photographs of iconostasis and photo-fixations of different stages of the interior decoration supplement the narrative sources. Fragments of the iconostasis are stored in the funds of the National Museum in Lviv. These are the works of Petro Kholodnyi the Elder that managed to survive through the destruction of ‘risky’ artworks of 1952. The wall paintings were bleached during the Soviet period, and currently, they cannot be seen, which complicates the research. In this essay, I seek to reveal the initial intentions of the chapel’s patrons and to highlight how the restored interior serves their educational and ideological purposes. I shall discuss the use of symbols of early Christian or Ukrainian origin through the methodological lenses of Yu. Lotman’s theory on construction of interior spaces, semiospheres and their boundaries, A. Lidov’s concept of hierotopy. I shall address the use of particular symbols and signs and their role and provide explanatory texts from the Bible in order to trace their origin. Particular attention shall be paid to the patron’s understanding and articulation of the main purposes of sacral art and to the impact their understanding might have had on the artistic style. Thus, I shall focus on the use of the elements of Byzantine style in decoration of the chapel, for this style was of primary importance for church leaders and artists involved.

scholarly journals DELOVANJE SLOVENSKE VOJSKE V ČASU EPIDEMIJE COVIDA-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
TANJA KREMŽAR KOVAČ
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Unit ◽  
International Operations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Military ◽  
Epidemiological Situation ◽  
At Home

V prispevku je predstavljen pojav epidemije covida-19 v Republiki Sloveniji, s poudarkom na delovanju Slovenske vojske. Opisujemo odziv Slovenske vojske na epidemijo in postopke ter procese, ki jih je izvajala na svojih nalogah tako doma kot v mednarodnih operacijah in na misijah v tujini, ter omogočila dodatno podporo državi in državljanom pri spoprijemanju z novim virusom. Poudarek je na postopkih in procesih, vodenih v Vojaški zdravstveni enoti, za spremljanje epidemioloških razmer. Delovanje Slovenske vojske, ki se navezuje na delovanje njihovih zdravstvenih enot med epidemijo covid-19, primerjamo z nekaterimi drugimi oboroženimi silami. Ključne besede covid-19, epidemija, virus, Slovenska vojska, Vojaška zdravstvena enota. Abstract The article presents the phenomenon of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Republic of Slovenia with focus on the activities of the Slovenian Armed Forces. It describes the response of the Slovenian Armed Forces to the epidemic, and the procedures and processes applied as part of its missions at home and in international operations and missions abroad. These activities provided additional support to the state and its citizens in dealing with the new virus. The emphasis is put on the procedures and processes of the Military Medical Unit aimed at monitoring the epidemiological situation. Additionally, the epidemic-related activities of the Slovenian Armed Forces and its medical units are compared to the activities of several other armed forces. Key words COVID-19, epidemic, virus, Slovenian Armed Forces, Military Medical Unit

The Haredi Scholar-Society and the Military Draft in Israel

2017 ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Nissim Leon
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Image ◽  
The State ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Critical View ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Cultural Structure

This chapter examines the phenomenon of deferments of army enlistment in Israel of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men studying in yeshivas. The author claims that counter-nationalist argument enables us to understand the progress that the haredi scholar-society has made from a sectorial entity that kept itself removed from the nation-state, and viewed the state as an undesired political fact, to an entity that maintains its own counter-nationalism. This social cultural religious entity regards itself as a symbiotic or active partner in the national endeavor, specifically through the insular haredi ethos. The author employs the term counter-nationalism to describe an approach that takes a critical view of nationalism, but has in effect adapted it to the structure of the discourse, organization, and aims of the hegemonic national ideology. This perspective raises the possibility that the ultra-Orthodox are beginning to view themselves as maintaining a complementary partnership with the Israeli culture, and to a considerable extent have even constructed a similar cultural structure, a sort of mirror-image of the militaristic one. Moreover, this study even suggests that the haredi mainstream seeks recognition for itself as the spiritual elite troops of the State of Israel.

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