Military Leadership and Education and Religion's Role in the U.S. Military Mission

Abstract

Religious diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces serves both as source of inspiration and a source of confusion, often simultaneously. The military Services have wrestled with establishing a holistic approach toward their personnel that embraces human diversity without sacrificing traditionally high standards of character, obedience, unit cohesion, esprit de corps, and mission readiness, to include effective interaction with foreign nationals whose cultures differ from those of the majority population. This wrestling match is perhaps nowhere more confusing or complex than when addressing the holy and the secular; how military leaders engage with religiondomestically and in out of the continental United States (OCONUS) operational areas of responsibilitywithout becoming engaged in a "religious mission?"

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1005633

Entities

People

  • Charlotte C Hunter
  • Lyman Smith

Organizations

  • Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Anthropology
  • Basic Training
  • Chaplains
  • Christianity
  • Civilian Population
  • Data Centers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discrimination
  • Education
  • Religion
  • Sociology
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Supreme Court
  • Surveys
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.