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Fields of Blood

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Fields of BloodBy: Karen Armstrong From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around usin our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in

By: Karen Armstrong     
From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence.

In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us—in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades, this book lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism and Judaism. Each of these faiths arose in agrarian societies with plenty of motivation for violence: landowners had to lord it over peasants and warfare was essential to increase one's landholdings—the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimize the actions of the state. And so the martial ethos became bound up with the sacred.

At the same time, however, there were ideologies developed that ran counter to the warrior code: around sages, prophets and mystics. Within each tradition there grew communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these two impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode. But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern belligerence—and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time.
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