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God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare / Mark Juergensmeyer

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare / Mark Juergensmeyer
A pour autre édition sur un support différent
  • God at war a meditation on religion and warfare Mark Juergensmeyer 2020 Oxford Oxford University Press 978-0-19-007920-8
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (VIII-107 pages) ; 25 cm
ISBN
  • 0-19-007917-7
  • 978-0-19-007917-8
EAN
  • 9780190079178 rel.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 201.727 3
Note sur le titre et les responsabilités
  • Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [97]-101. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction: Why Do We Think About War? Chapter 1: The Odd Appeal of War Chapter 2: War as Alternative Reality Chapter 3: Religion as Alternative Reality Chapter 4: The Marriage of War and Religion Chapter 5: Can Religion Cure War ?
Résumé ou extrait
  • La jaquette indique : "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. This book explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare and explains why religion needs war and war needs religion. 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 connection between religion and warfare -- 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. 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 and personal fears lead to extremes of both religion and war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle."
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