Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror
Michael Burleigh's recent book Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror covers an enormous range of twentieth-century social history in Europe, and in many parts he does so admirably, but it is also a frustrating volume. To begin, what genre of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 176-177 |
| Review of: | Sacred causes (New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2007) (Wellman, James K.)
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| Summary: | Michael Burleigh's recent book Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror covers an enormous range of twentieth-century social history in Europe, and in many parts he does so admirably, but it is also a frustrating volume. To begin, what genre of analysis is it; the author himself struggles to define his work, is this church history—no; an analysis of political religion, perhaps. Burleigh argues that values and moral worldviews count and thus must be analyzed to adequately address historical movements without ignoring material factors. In the end, he leaves his work unnamed—and perhaps this is for the best. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp037 |