Sacred Causes The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror

Name: Sacred Causes The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
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ISBN: 9780060580964

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Authors: Michael Burleigh

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Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, "Sacred Causes" is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements of the twentieth century are masterfully captured here, from Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain through to the modern scourge of terrorism. Eloquently and persuasively combining an authoritative survey of history with a timely reminder of the dangers of radical secularism, Burleigh asks why no one foresaw the religious implications of massive Third World immigration, and he deftly…

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List price: $17.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Michael Burleigh, as of the fall of 2000, is a professor of history at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of six previous books on Germany, including Death and Deliverance and Ethics and Extermination.



Preface



'Distress of Nations and Perplexity': Europe after the Great War



The Totalitarian Political Religions



The Churches in the Age of Dictators



Apocalypse 1939-1945



Resistance, Christian Democracy and the Cold War



The Road to Unfreedom: The Imposition of Communism after 1945



Time of the Toy Trumpets



'The Curse of Ulster': The Northern Ireland Troubles c. 1968-2005



'We Want God, We Want God': The Churches and the Collapse of European Marxist-Leninism 1970-1990



Cubes, Domes and Death Cults: Europe after 9/11


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