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The Great and Holy War

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Great and Holy War

By Philip Jenkins

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About the book

The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. A steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was served 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. Philip Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels, apparitions, and the supernatural, was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the Abrahamic...Show more

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9780745956732

Publisher

Lion Hudson Ltd

Published year

2015

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The Great and Holy War

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