Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh - 9780007195756
Harper Perennial
Sacred CausesReligion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda\nAuthor(s): Michael Burleigh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: HarperPerennial\nISBN-13: 9780007195756, 978-0007195756\nSynopsis\nPopulated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, Sacred Causes provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror.\nBeginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a sweepingly assured critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. Covering a vast canvas, Burleigh examines the many 'secular' religions the twentieth-century produced, analysing how successive totalitarian leaders fantasised and aped the hierarchy, rites and ritual of the churches in the desire to return to the day where ruler and deity were o.
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