The great and holy war : how World War I became a religious crusade / Philip Jenkins.
Publisher: San Francisco : HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2014Edition: First EditionDescription: ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062105097 (hardback)
- 9780062105141 (pbk)
- 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
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BSOP Library | GC | D639 J41 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00051935 |
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.
