The great and holy war : how World War I became a religious crusade / Philip Jenkins.

Author: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-

Edition Statement:First Edition.

Imprint:San Francisco : HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2014]

Descriptionix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note:Introduction : from angels to Armageddon -- The 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.

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