In God's Name
Omer Bartov (Ed.)
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Paperback. Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. Editor(s): Bartov, Omer; Mack, Phyllis. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; HRAM9; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
War and Genocide
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571813022
SKU
V9781571813022
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About Omer Bartov (Ed.)
Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018) along with several other well-regarded scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2013) and Erased: Vanishing Traces of ... Read more
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