... as engaged in a personalised ‘spiritual war’ against the Soviet Union. This chapter considers the pastoral nature of American psychological warfare both at home and aboard, detailing its use of Christian ‘technologies of the self,’ notably confession and catechism. It concludes that the early years...

... and powers accorded to local gods, as are visible both in the prayers offered on behalf of village communities, and in the texts of confession and expiation set up by individuals. The chapter ends by downplaying notions of serious tension between rural Anatolian cult practice and ‘an essentially urban...