In God's Name
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In God's Name

Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

In God's Name

Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

About this book

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 shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.

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Yes, you can access In God's Name by Omer Bartov,Phyllis Mack,Omer Bartov in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice
  6. Chapter 1: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Armenians, Turks, and the End of the Ottoman Empire
  7. Chapter 2: Genocide, Religion, and Gerhard Kittel: Protestant Theologians Face the Third Reich
  8. Chapter 3: When Jesus Was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda
  9. Chapter 4: A Pure Conscience if Good Enough: Bishop Von Galen and Resistance to Nazism
  10. Chapter 5: Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich
  11. Chapter 6: Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda
  12. Chapter 7: The Churches and the Genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region
  13. Chapter 8: Kosovo Mythology and the Bosnian Genocide
  14. Part II: Survival: Rescuers and Victims
  15. Chapter 9: The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children Into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide
  16. Chapter 10: Transcending Boundaries: Hungarian Roman Catholic Religious Women and the "Persecuted Ones"
  17. Chapter 11: Denial and Defiance in the Work of Rabbi Regina Jonas
  18. Chapter 12: A Personal Account
  19. Part III: Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation
  20. Chapter 13: Zionist and Israeli Attitudes Toward the Armenian Genocide
  21. Chapter 14: Faith, Religious Practice, and Genocide: Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II
  22. Chapter 15: Orthodox Jewish Thought in the Wake of the Holocaust: Tamim Pa'alo of 1947
  23. Chapter 16: Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust: The Responses of Two Generations
  24. Chapter 17: The Journey to Poland
  25. Afterthought
  26. Contributors
  27. Index