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In the Name of Heaven - 3000 Years of Religious Persecution (Hardcover)
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In the Name of Heaven - 3000 Years of Religious Persecution (Hardcover)
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Religion-the source of inspiration, hope, and basic values for most
of humanity throughout history-has also been the motive for
atrocious persecutions from antiquity to the present. In the Name
of Heaven is a wide-ranging historical survey of religious
persecution encompassing three millennia and a great diversity of
cultures worldwide. Defining religious persecution as "repressive
actions initiated or condoned by authorities against their own
people on religious grounds," author Mary Jane Engh begins with
ancient Egypt, followed by the biblical history of Israel with its
accounts of divinely ordered genocides and capital punishment for
worshipers of other deities. Chapters are devoted to ancient Greece
(Socrates, Alcibiades, and Aristotle, among others, clashed with
the religious establishment); the Roman Empire (persecutions of
Jews, Christians, and Manichaeans, and the later persecution of
pagans and heretics by a Christianized Rome); the Islamic Empire
(persecutions of polytheists and dissident Muslims); and medieval
and Reformation Europe (where Protestants and Catholics persecuted
each other and both persecuted heretics). The twenty-two chapters
also cover Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific area. In an
epilogue Engh reviews the new forms of religious persecution from
the 20th century to the present-from major genocides and militant
forms of polytheism to persecution of all religion by atheistic
governments. Complete with references to further reading, this
sobering but factually indisputable survey of religion's dark side
enlightens while serving as a warning for the future.
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