God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare / Mark Juergensmeyer.
2020
BL65.W2 J83 2020
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Title
God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare / Mark Juergensmeyer.
Author
Juergensmeyer, Mark, author.
ISBN
9780190079208 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (176 pages).
Call Number
BL65.W2 J83 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
201.7273
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.
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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 27, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190079178
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