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Why God needs war and war needs God / Mark Juergensmeyer

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Why God needs war and war needs God / Mark Juergensmeyer
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Publication
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press, 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (X-107 pages) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-19-779580-4
  • 978-0-19-007917-8
EAN
  • 9780197795804 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 201.727 3
Note sur le titre et les responsabilités
  • Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur
Note sur l'édition et l'histoire bibliographique
  • Edition brochée parue en 2025
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [97]-101. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction: Why do we think about war ? The odd appeal of war. Responding to chaos Imagining war The ubiquity of war Living with chaos War as an alternative reality. Understanding what war is War's alternative reality Inventing enemies The world of war Religion as alternative reality. Religion's alternative reality Responding to life's disorder Religion and war: competing realities The marriage of war and religion. Does religion lead to war? When war embraces religion When religion embraces war When war and religion are fused: cosmic war Can religion cure war? Containing war War without blood Living with competing realities
Résumé ou extrait
  • "For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images of great confrontations of war on a transcendent scale. Why God Needs War and War Needs God explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. 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 finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author's thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle." (éd.)
  • Why God Needs War and War Needs God explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. 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 finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. 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 leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.
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