{"id":687,"date":"2014-05-13T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/the-great-war-and-religion-a-neglected-history.html"},"modified":"2014-05-13T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:36:00","slug":"the-great-war-and-religion-a-neglected-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/the-great-war-and-religion-a-neglected-history.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great War and Religion: A Neglected History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
World War I\u2013The Great War, as it was called at the time\u2013is remarkable in military history for its massive scope and loss of life, with more than nine million combatants killed. But its role in religious history is less appreciated, and an array of books coinciding with the July centennial could change that. \u201cWorld War I studies have not highlighted the role religion played,\u201d says Roger Freet executive editor at HarperOne, publisher of\u00a0The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade<\/em>\u00a0by Philip Jenkins (Apr.). \u201cIt is an unexplored part of what led up to the war, motivated the war, and sustained it on all sides,\u201d says Freet. \u201cWorld War I reshaped and remapped the major religious traditions.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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That is especially true of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, the triple focus of Jenkins\u2019 well-received book. The Baylor University history professor (The Next Christendom<\/em><\/a>) argues that the fighting powers\u2013especially the predominantly Christian nations\u2013viewed the conflict as a holy war and a crusade, even using apocalyptic images from the Book of Revelation\u2013seven-headed beasts, dragons\u2013to depict the enemies. That set the stage for Nazism, which held that Aryans were created a superior race by God, as well as for America\u2019s Cold War against \u201cgodless Communism\u201d in later decades; both were framed in terms of one side being favored by God. The Great War, Jenkins writes, shaped how religions and global powers view each other today, such as in attitudes toward statehood for Israel and in how some Islamic cultures define themselves against other cultures. The book is HarperOne\u2019s first on religion and war, Freet says, and a rare examination of war through a religious, though critical, lens. \u201cWe are still living in the shadow of World War I,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/div>\n

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