The great and holy war :
Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
The great and holy war : how World War I became a religious crusade / Philip Jenkins. - First Edition. - ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction : from angels to Armageddon -- The Great War : the aAge of massacre -- God's war : Christian nations, holy warfare, and the kingdom of God -- Witnesses for Christ : cosmic war, sacrifice and martyrdom -- The ways of God : faith, heresy and superstition -- The war of the end of the world : visions of the last days -- Armageddon : dreams of apocalypse in the war's savage last year -- The sleep of religion : Europe's crisis and the rise of secular messiahs -- Ruins of Christendom : reconstructing Christian faith at the end of the age -- A new Zion : the crisis of European Judaism and the vision of a new world -- Those from below : the spiritual liberation of the world's subject peoples -- Genocide : the destruction of the oldest Christian world -- African prophets : how new churches and new hopes arose outside Europe -- Without a caliph : the Muslim quest for a Godly political order.
9780062105097 (hardback) 9780062105141 (pbk)
2013041013
World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects.
World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Nationalism--Religious aspects--History--20th century.
Nationalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.
Messianism.
Eschatology.
RELIGION / History.
HISTORY / Military / World War I.
HISTORY / World.
The great and holy war : how World War I became a religious crusade / Philip Jenkins. - First Edition. - ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction : from angels to Armageddon -- The Great War : the aAge of massacre -- God's war : Christian nations, holy warfare, and the kingdom of God -- Witnesses for Christ : cosmic war, sacrifice and martyrdom -- The ways of God : faith, heresy and superstition -- The war of the end of the world : visions of the last days -- Armageddon : dreams of apocalypse in the war's savage last year -- The sleep of religion : Europe's crisis and the rise of secular messiahs -- Ruins of Christendom : reconstructing Christian faith at the end of the age -- A new Zion : the crisis of European Judaism and the vision of a new world -- Those from below : the spiritual liberation of the world's subject peoples -- Genocide : the destruction of the oldest Christian world -- African prophets : how new churches and new hopes arose outside Europe -- Without a caliph : the Muslim quest for a Godly political order.
9780062105097 (hardback) 9780062105141 (pbk)
2013041013
World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects.
World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Nationalism--Religious aspects--History--20th century.
Nationalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.
Messianism.
Eschatology.
RELIGION / History.
HISTORY / Military / World War I.
HISTORY / World.
