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God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare / Mark Juergensmeyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Juergensmeyer, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Religious aspects.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Based on the author's thirty years of fieldwork interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict and personal fears lead to extremes of both religion and war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book probes the remarkably similar alternative realities that are created in the human imagination by both religious ideas and images of war in response to crises both personal and social.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 27, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-007920-7
- 0-19-007918-5
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