God at War —— A Meditation on Religion and Warfare

----- 战争中的上帝：宗教与战争的沉思

ISBN: 9780190079178 出版年：2020 页码：121 Juergensmeyer, Mark Oxford University Press

God at War explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author's thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.