Soldiering and the the Rites of Passage

Authors

  • Sinan Caya

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Abstract

Armed forces are kept by the states for purposes of defense Despite various claims armies never become redundant The need for protection of the boundaries even though a seemingly old-fashioned idea is always there as a sheer reality to reckon with for any given country Being exposed to aggression is a sad probability which may occur suddenly and hit the fate of any nation A lot of philosophical sentences about the lacking of human reasoning in soldierly ways have also been uttered Now a soldier differs from a civilian and the transformation of the latter being into the former one is a radical social metamorphosis including moral and physical factors From an anthropological viewpoint it is a full initiation ritual or passage rite This fact alone renders all martial activities entirely rational and compatible with logic

How to Cite

Sinan Caya. (2016). Soldiering and the the Rites of Passage. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 16(H6), 49–54. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1941

Soldiering and the the Rites of Passage

Published

2016-05-15