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Gods at War - Understanding Three Millennia of Religious Conflict (Hardcover)
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Gods at War - Understanding Three Millennia of Religious Conflict (Hardcover)
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Gods at War examines the role played by religions in starting or
supporting wars from ancient Egypt and Israel to the current
conflicts in Yemen and the Ukraine. It not only analyses the
traditionally recognised wars of religion such as the Crusades and
the Thirty Years War and the many Islamic jihads, but also
addresses the role played by nearly all religions in encouraging
warrior kings, dictators and even democracies to wage wars,
supporting them with money, promises of paradise in the after-life,
guarantees of victory (God is on their side) and ceremonial to keep
up morale. Onward Christian Soldiers. Oliver Thomson assesses the
level of religious involvement in wars, including less obvious ones
such as the attempted invasion of the Spanish Armada, the French
Revolutionary Wars, and the Japanese War in the Pacific; the prime
minister of Japan who launched the attack on Pearl Harbor was a
devout Buddhist. There are examples of wars inspired by Judaism,
rival Christian and Muslim sects, Sikhism and Japanese Shinto. The
first section of the book discusses several different types of
religious influence in conflicts, ranging from almost purely
religious wars like the French or German wars of religion, to the
many others where religion only played a supportive but still
significant role. It also explores the reasons why religious
sanction has been welcomed by war leaders and why religions chose
to cooperate. Distinctions are drawn between the documented faith
of each religion and its manipulation by its leaders when it suited
them. Four main sections cover wars from the pre-Christian era, the
Middle Ages, the early modern period and finally the conflicts of
the twenty-first century, including the use made of the Russian
church by Vladimir Putin, of Sunni Islam by Mohammed bin Salman -
even of Pentecostalism in Guatemala.
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