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Sacred causes : the clash of religion and politics from the Great War to the War on Terror

Sacred causes : the clash of religion and politics from the Great War to the War on Terror

Book 2007

From one of the leading historians of our time comes a brilliant and incisive work of history that examines the politics of religion and the religion of politics, from the catastrophe of the First World War to the modern-day War on Terror. 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 ca...