Format:
vi, 438 p
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780062105097
,
9780062105141
Note:
Includes index
,
Introduction : from angels to ArmageddonThe Great War : the aAge 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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Religion
;
Sakralisierung
Author information:
Jenkins, Philip 1952-
