God and Uncle Sam

God and Uncle Sam
Author: Michael Francis Snape
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843838923

America's armed forces were the products of one of the most diverse and dynamic religious cultures in the western world and were the largest ever to be raised by a professedly religious society. Despite constitutional constraints, a pre-war 'religious depression', and the myriad pitfalls of war, religion played a crucial role in helping more than sixteen million uniformed Americans through the ordeal of World War II, a fact that had profound and far-reaching implications for the religious development of post-war America.--Provided by publisher.

God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land

God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land
Author: Todd M. Kerstetter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2006
Genre: Lakota Indians
ISBN: 0252030389

While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by society and the U.S. government.God's Country, Uncle Sam's Landanalyzes Mormon history from the Utah Expedition and Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 through subsequent decades of federal legislative and judicial actions aimed at ending polygamy and limiting church power. It also focuses on the Lakota Ghost Dancers and the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota (1890), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas (1993). In sharp contrast to the mythic image of the West as the "Land of the Free," these three tragic episodes reveal the West as a cultural battleground--in the words of one reporter, "a collision of guns, God, and government." Kerstetter asks important questions about what happens when groups with a deep trust in their differing inner truths meet, and he exposes the religious motivations behind government policies that worked to alter Mormonism and extinguish Native American beliefs.

Uncle Sam's Bible

Uncle Sam's Bible
Author: James Booth Converse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1899
Genre: Christianity and politics
ISBN:

Uncle Sam's Bible

Uncle Sam's Bible
Author: James B. Converse
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781330088630

Excerpt from Uncle Sam's Bible: Or Bible Teachings About Politics "Uncle Sam" needs a Bible. May this book persuade him to look for one. For there is a Bible especially designed and written for him. Blessed will he be if he will take it from the pulpit cushion or the parlor table and carry it into his senate chambers, his executive mansions and his court-rooms, and study and obey it. This book looks at political questions from the standpoint of righteousness or conformity to God's will. It has few predecessors; may it have many successors! Its publishers hope "that it will arouse more interest and exert greater influence than any book ever did, excepting the Bible." The realization of their hope will be the greatest blessing to our posterity to the latest generation. For the scripturalness of its twenty-eight principles will be seriously questioned only by those who, like the Rev. Luther Calvin Wesley, D.D., prefer their earthly comforts to God's word. The danger is that these truths will be overlooked in the future as they have been in the past. We therefore ask for the prayers and co-operation of the pious reader that the benevolent and patriotic wishes of the publishers may be accomplished. To condense into one volume the discussion of so many reforms commanded by God required brevity. Perhaps this has led sometimes to obscurity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam
Author: Steve Darnall
Publisher: Titan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
ISBN: 9781848562844

A vagrant is swept away by mysterious voices and visions of a haunted past that spans all of America's history. As the voices in his head begin to make sense, they set off time travelling visions that hint at his own violent past.

Uncle Sam's Bible; Or, Bible Teachings about Politics

Uncle Sam's Bible; Or, Bible Teachings about Politics
Author: James Booth Converse
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780469575158

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No Uncle Sam

No Uncle Sam
Author: Anton F. Bilek
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873387682

This is Anton F. Bilek's story of his survival as a Japanese prisoner of war. He recounts the Death March that he and other Fil-American prisoners of war endured in Bataan after surrender, his imprisonment in the Philippines and Japan and his subsequent servitude in the Japanese coal mines.