The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

by Philip Jenkins

Book Overview

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century.

The war was fought by the world's leading Christian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062105094
• ISBN13: 9780062105097
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"