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In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century
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In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century Hardcover - 2001

by Bartov Omer (Editor); Phyllis Mack (Editor)


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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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  • Title In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century
  • Author Bartov Omer (Editor); Phyllis Mack (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books, New York
  • Date 2001-04-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781571812148 / 1571812148
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.94 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.178

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Citations

  • Christian Century, 02/27/2002, Page 30
  • New York Review of Books, 09/26/2002, Page 48

About the author

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 Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2015).

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