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. _God at War_
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.
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ISBN
9780190079192
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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