In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth CenturyOmer Bartov, Phyllis Mack Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity. |
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Genocide Religion and Gerhard Kittel Protestant Theologians Face the Third Reich | 62 |
When Jesus Was an Aryan The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda | 79 |
A Pure Conscience if Good Enough Bishop Von Galen and Resistance to Nazism | 106 |
Between God and Hitler German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich | 123 |
Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda | 139 |
Denial and Defiance in the Work of Rabbi Regina Jonas | 243 |
A Personal Account | 259 |
Aftermath Politics Faith and Representation | 265 |
Zionist and Israeli Attitudes Toward the Armenian Genocide | 267 |
Faith Religious Practice and Genocide Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II | 289 |
Orthodox Jewish Thought in the Wake of the Holocaust Tamim Paalo of 1947 | 316 |
JewishAmerican Artists and the Holocaust The Responses of Two Generations | 342 |
The Journey to Poland | 350 |
The Churches and the Genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region | 161 |
Kosovo Mythology and the Bosnian Genocide | 180 |
Survival Rescuers and Victims | 207 |
The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children Into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide | 209 |
Transcending Boundaries Hungarian Roman Catholic Religious Women and the Persecuted Ones | 222 |
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