Book Detail
Title God at war : a meditation on religion and warfare
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Call No 201.7273 JUE
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Publisher Name Oxford University Press
Publishing Year 2020
Edition 1st
Pages 107
Price 0.00 PKR
Text Language English
Available Yes, Accessions:[ 52003 ]
Description 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 and personal fears lead to extremes of both religion and war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle. 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 re
Keywords War-Religious aspects; religion-warfare