04559cam a2200433 4500 233435944 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062105103 0062105108 B00FJ313O0 Amazon 3cddb8e9-e13f-4368-9c97-38d9281acc5f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1420562 OverDrive (Product ID) 1420562 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jenkins, Philip. The Great and Holy War [Libby eBook] : How World War I Became a Religious Crusade. HarperCollins, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6157kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions--Christianity, Judaism and Islam--paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters--from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide--Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war.. "A painstaking, densely layered study of a time when religious themes underpinned the militarism and nationalism of the embroiled nations. Indeed, as Jenkins carefully portrays, the war changed everything, from the collapse of the old order to the compromising and weakening of world faiths. A work of intensely nuanced research.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. "If you care about religious diversity and the role of faith in global war and peace—then you must get a copy of The Great and Holy War. [A] unique and important look at how the First World War reshaped global conflicts we are still wrestling with a century later.". HTML:ReadTheSpirit. "In his masterful book Jenkins...firmly establishes that WWI did not just reshape the political landscape, but it created the religious world we exist in today.". HTML:The Catholic World Report. "This sweeping, carefully researched book makes sense of a global conflict... [that] redrew the global map and reshaped all the major faiths involved.". HTML:Christianity Today. "Jenkins' vividly written synthesis [on World War I] belongs at the top of reading lists on the conflict.". HTML:Christian Century. "An astounding chronicle of intense piety inciting acts of terrible carnage.". HTML:Booklist, starred review. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3cddb8e9-e13f-4368-9c97-38d9281acc5f https://samples.overdrive.com/great-and-holy?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/great-and-holy?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/great-and-holy?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)