LEADER 04761nam 22007575 450 001 9910788154603321 005 20210510212943.0 010 $a0-8122-2401-9 010 $a0-8122-9097-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290974 035 $a(CKB)2670000000598547 035 $a(OCoLC)904033582 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary11024636 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001454133 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11934744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001454133 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11493862 035 $a(PQKB)11484514 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42143 035 $a(DE-B1597)451248 035 $a(OCoLC)913651038 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442491 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000598547 100 $a20200623h20152015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHoly War, Martyrdom, and Terror $eChristianity, Violence, and the West /$fPhilippe Buc 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (454 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-336-02219-1 311 0 $a0-8122-4685-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. The Object of This History --$t1. The American Way of War Through the Premodern Looking-Glass --$t2. Christian Exegesis and Violence --$t3. Madness, Martyrdom, and Terror --$t4. Martyrdom in the West: Vengeance, Purge, Salvation, and History --$t5. Twins: National Holy War and Sectarian Terror --$t6. Liberty and Coercion --$t7. The Subject of History and the Making of History --$tPost face. No Future to That Past? --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aHoly War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war?the essential tenets of Christian theology?Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. Even in secularized or explicitly non-Christian societies, such as the Soviet Union of the Stalinist purges, social and political projects are tied to religious violence, and religious conceptual structures have influenced the ways violence is imagined, inhibited, perceived, and perpetrated. The patterns that emerge from this sweeping history upend commonplace assumptions about historical violence, while contextualizing and explaining some of its peculiarities. Buc addresses the culturally sanctioned logic that might lead a sane person to kill or die on principle, traces the circuitous reasoning that permits contradictory political actions, such as coercing freedom or pardoning war atrocities, and locates religious faith at the backbone of nationalist conflict. He reflects on the contemporary American ideology of war?one that wages violence in the name of abstract notions such as liberty and world peace and that he reveals to be deeply rooted in biblical notions. A work of extraordinary breadth, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror connects the ancient past to the troubled present, showing how religious ideals of sacrifice and purification made violence meaningful throughout history. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aTerrorism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aMartyrdom$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aWar$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aPolitical violence$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aViolence$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aTerrorism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aMartyrdom$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aWar$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical violence$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aViolence$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 676 $a261.873 700 $aBuc$b Philippe$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0169297 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788154603321 996 $aHoly War, Martyrdom, and Terror$93709593 997 $aUNINA