Faith, war, and violence
By: Gabriel R. Ricci
Series: Religion and public life -- v.39; Religion & public life -- v.39.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781412854993
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: War; Religious aspects; Violence; Christianity; Islam; Sikhs; Warfare; Religion and politics; History
Description: Faith, war, and violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it finds that religion-inspired violence is not restricted to Abrahamic faiths or to one geographic region.