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Moral Injury among Returning Veterans

From Thank You for Your Service to a Liberative Solidarity

Moral Injury among Returning Veterans

From Thank You for Your Service to a Liberative Solidarity

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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793642646
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 15/09/2021
Width: 16 cm
Height: 22.9 cm

Josh Morris privileges the voices of veterans to argue that returning soldiers need families, friends, and religious communities to listen to their stories with compassion to avoid amplifying the effects of moral injury. When society greets returning soldiers in ways that reinforce cultural norms that frame military service as heroic, rather than acknowledging its ambiguities and harmful effects, it exacerbates moral injury and keeps veterans from resolving inner conflicts and coping effectively with civilian life.

Morris, a military chaplain and veteran who served in Afghanistan, knows these difficulties first hand. Using stories from other veterans, Morris helps us see how cultural assumptions about military service can complicate moral injury and a veteran's return home. Drawing from liberation theologies, ideology critique, and Antonio Gramsci's advocacy for the working class, the book suggests useful perspectives and spiritual care resources for military chaplains, religious leaders, caregivers, and concerned civilians. Morris argues that military chaplains are uniquely positioned to help returning soldiers resist the amplification of existing moral injury. Moving from “thank you for your service” to liberative solidarity can galvanize resistance and make change possible.

1. Are We Still Over There?

2. From Disorder to Injury: Mapping the Terrain(s)

3. Hermeneutical Circles and Liberative Praxis

4. The Reification of the Veteran: Kaleidoscopic Lived Experiences

5. The Centrality of Community in Moral Injury Support: Theological and Cultural Studies Analysis

6. Oppositional Forces: Toward a Counterhegemonic Paradigm for Spiritual Care

and Counseling

Appendix: Note on Research Design

Joshua Morris

Joshua T. Morris, Ph.D. is a bivocational scholar-practitioner who serves as a pediatric staff chaplain and also as a chaplain in the United States Army Reserve.

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