When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends Juergensmeyer Mark
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends Juergensmeyer Mark A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply…
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When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends Juergensmeyer Mark
A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply involved.How does religious violence end? But even the most violent of movements, consumed by grand religious visions of holy warfare, eventually come to an end. When God Stops Fighting probes for answers through case studies and personal interviews with militants associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq, the Sikh Khalistan movement in India's Punjab, and the Moro movement for a Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines.Mark Juergensmeyer is arguably the globe's leading expert on religious violence, and for decades his books have helped us understand the worlds and worldviews of those who take up arms in the name of their faith.
In order to understand what leads to these drastic changes in the attitudes of men and women once devoted to