Sacred causes
Subtitle: religion and politics from the European dictators to Al Qaeda
By: Michael Burleigh
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780007195756
Subjects: Religion and politics; History
Description: This volume provides an examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the post-World War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, it is a critique of how religion has been camouflaged by politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-534) and index.