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Holy War: History of an Idea
Author(s): Jacques G. Ruelland (Author), Cornelia Fuykschot (Translator), Jeanne Poulin (Translator)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 July 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 124 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780773455481
- ISBN-13: 0773455485
Book Description
The author seeks to establish a clear distinction between a holy war which concerns religion, and a just war which concerns ethics. He makes us understand that the root of the problem of the definition of holy war resides in the ambiguity of the notion of ‘sacredness’, in its metamorphoses or in its displacements. By revealing the ideas behind holy war by examining speeches and events of many eras and cultures, he criticizes the sacred character of the wars between Jews and Moslems, jihads and crusades, the religious and Byzantine wars, the two World Wars of the twentieth century, and the Gulf War.
