Introduction : from angels to Armageddon The Great War : the Age of massacre God's war : Christian nations, holy warfare, and the kingdom of God Witnesses for Christ : cosmic war, sacrifice and martyrdom The ways of God : faith, heresy and superstition The war of the end of the world : visions of the last days Armageddon : dreams of apocalypse in the war's savage last year The sleep of religion : Europe's crisis and the rise of secular messiahs Ruins of Christendom : reconstructing Christian faith at the end of the age A new Zion : the crisis of European Judaism and the vision of a new world Those from below : the spiritual liberation of the world's subject peoples Genocide : the destruction of the oldest Christian world African prophets : how new churches and new hopes arose outside Europe Without a caliph : the Muslim quest for a Godly political order