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Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- History.
Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History.
Religion -- Social aspects -- History.
Secularism.
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Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
Violence -- Religious aspects -- History.
Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History.
Religion -- Social aspects -- History.
Secularism.
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Fields of blood : religion and the history of violence / Karen Armstrong.
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Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
Knopf Canada, 2014.
Call #:
201
.76332
A736f
Subjects
Violence -- Religious aspects -- History.
Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History.
Religion -- Social aspects -- History.
Secularism.
ISBN:
9780307401960 (hc.)
Description:
512 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. This book lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism and Judaism. Each of these faiths arose in agrarian societies with plenty of motivation for violence: landowners had to lord it over peasants and warfare was essential to increase one's landholdings, the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimize the actions of the state. At the same time, their ideologies developed that ran counter to the warrior code: around sages, prophets and mystics. Within each tradition there grew up communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these 2 impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode. But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern belligerence--and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time. Karen Armstrong is the author of The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha and The Great Transformation -- and a memoir, The Spiral Staircase."--Provided by publisher.
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