Moral Injury as Inherent Political Critique
The Prophetic Possibilities of a New Term
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5796023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Wiinikka‐lydon (0000-0002-5589-8095, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA, corresponding author), Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon (Denison University, Granville, OH, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 219-232 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2015.1104205 |
| OpenAlex | W2339978870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 6 |
Moral injury is a term developed specifically to highlight the moral harm accrued by U.S. veterans during war, the salience of which seems to exceed the analytical range of terms such as "trauma." Veterans can feel that they violated fundamental moral ideals, leaving some to feel they have lost the ability to be "good." Moral injury as a term originally had an important political dimension, however, one that has been lost in a turn to a more clinical approach. I argue that the experience of moral injury can lend itself to potential, prophetic insights into the effects of one's culture on the wider world. Instead of seeing moral injury as a disorder in need of clinical treatment, it can be the basis of a religiously informed social ethic empowering veterans to engage the broader social conditions and policies that lead to war in the first place
Moral injury · Salience (neuroscience · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
“Ruptured selves
Repairing moral injury takes a team
A hermeneutic of vulnerability
“If I die, they do not care”
What Can I Call That Hurt?”
The Critical Power of an Expanded Concept of Moral Injury
LGBT Veterans and Moral Injury
Recontextualising moral injury among military veterans
Shifting the Pastoral Theology Conversation on Moral Injury
Transforming Veteran Identity Through Community Engagement
Spiritual Fitness and Moral Responsibility in the Contemporary United States Military
Towards a Soldier-Based View in Research on The Military
Care, complicity, and containment
Relating to moral injuries
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |