Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict books

2349 books were found.

Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christianity, and State Development in Indonesia

Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christianity, and State...

Author: Lorraine V. Aragon
ISBN: 9780824823030
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslims and Christians escalated dramatically just before and...  Read More >>

Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade

Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade

Author: Alfred J. Andrea, PhD
ISBN: 9789004117402
Format: Hardback
$551.76

This volume presents English translations of seven major bodies of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)....  Read More >>

Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima

Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in...

Author: Terence L. Donaldson
ISBN: 9780889203488
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Brings a new perspective to the study of religion in antiquity. Along with the deliberate goal to understand religion...  Read More >>

The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East: Encounters with Western Christian missions, archaeologists, and colonial power

The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East: Encounters...

Author: John Joseph
ISBN: 9789004116412
Format: Hardback
$422.40

As ""Assyrians"" members of this religio-linguistic minority have either been romanticized for gallantry and integrity,...  Read More >>

The Abundant Life Prevails: Religious Traditions on Saint Helena Island

The Abundant Life Prevails: Religious Traditions on...

Author: Michael C. Wolfe
ISBN: 9780918954732
Format: Hardback
$104.00

Examines the history of the rich religious life on Saint Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina. Previous...  Read More >>

Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India

Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and...

Author: Antony Copley (Reader in Modern History, Reader in Modern History, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780195649109
Format: Paperback
$14.95

This is the story of a conflict between a highly confrontationalist Protestant mission in the mid-nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97

Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern...

Author: Heike Behrend
ISBN: 9780821413111
Format: Paperback
$43.95

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian...  Read More >>

Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-making

Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-making...

Author: Minou Reeves ,  Philip J. Stewart
ISBN: 9781859641231
Format: Hardback
$102.83

Presentations of the prophet Muhammad in European literature and religious writing often reflected a fledgling Christianity's...  Read More >>

Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Author: Reuven Firestone
ISBN: 9780195125801
Format: Hardback
$123.95

Traces the origin and evolution of Islamic holy war through the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in...  Read More >>

John Hunyadi: Defender of Christendom

John Hunyadi: Defender of Christendom

Author: Camil Muresanu
ISBN: 9789739432184
Format: Undefined
$105.47

This biography explores the life and times of John Hunyadi. It traces the history of the Ottoman Turks up to the...  Read More >>

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and...

Author: Scott R. Appleby ,  Theodore M. Hesburgh
ISBN: 9780847685547
Format: Hardback
$260.00

This book explains what religious terrorist and religious peacemakers share in common, what causes them to take...  Read More >>

The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France

The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux...

Author: Alan Friedlander
ISBN: 9789004115194
Format: Leather / fine binding
$390.72

This biography of a controversial religious figure of the fourteenth century offers material that illuminates critical...  Read More >>

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and...

Author: Scott R. Appleby ,  Theodore M. Hesburgh
ISBN: 9780847685554
Format: Paperback
$83.95

This book explains what religious terrorist and religious peacemakers share in common, what causes them to take...  Read More >>

The Last Conquistador: Mansio Serra De Lequizamon and the Conquest of the Incas

The Last Conquistador: Mansio Serra De Lequizamon and...

Author: Stuart Stirling
ISBN: 9780750922463
Format: Paperback
$51.75

After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived...  Read More >>

Reformation Europe: 1517-1559

Reformation Europe: 1517-1559

Author: Geoffrey R. Elton (Late of the University of Cambridge) ,  Andrew Pettegree (University of St. Andrew's)
ISBN: 9780631215080
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Revised edition of a popular text. Examines the important roles of Luther and Charles V. Includes an updated...  Read More >>

Knights of the Cloister: Templars and Hospitallers in Central-Southern Occitania, c.1100-c.1300

Knights of the Cloister: Templars and Hospitallers in...

Author: Dominic Selwood
ISBN: 9780851158280
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Templars' and Hospitallers' daily business of recruitment, fund-raising, farming, shipping and communal life...  Read More >>

Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy

Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy

Author: G.A. Loud
ISBN: 9780860788034
Format: Hardback
$73.99

The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries upon the society of...  Read More >>

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Author: John Foxe ,  W. Berry
ISBN: 9780800786649
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This Christian classic tells the stories of brave men and women who were martyred for their faith in the fourteenth...  Read More >>

Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries

Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to...

Author: Paul Fregosi
ISBN: 9781573922470
Format: Hardback
$87.07

Jihad, the Muslim holy war against Christians and others, has raged with bloody conquests in Europe. This work presents...  Read More >>

Conflict Resolution: A Foundation Guide

Conflict Resolution: A Foundation Guide

Author: Susan Stewart
ISBN: 9781872870656
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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That Woman

That Woman

Author: Daniel Danis ,  Linda Gaboriau
ISBN: 9780889223998
Format: Paperback
$31.55

A young woman is found exploring her sexuality by her brother, the Bishop. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.  Read More >>

Religion and the War in Bosnia

Religion and the War in Bosnia

Author: Paul Mojzes
ISBN: 9780788504280
Format: Paperback
$31.90

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Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the Diaspora

Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the...

Author: G. ter Haar
ISBN: 9789042906631
Format: Paperback
$153.12

This volume explores the ways in which the term 'diaspora' has been applied in past and present to various religious...  Read More >>

Islamic Fundamentalism

Islamic Fundamentalism

Author: Youssef M. Choueiri
ISBN: 9780826463838
Format: Paperback
$184.80

By viewing Islamic fundamentalism as a reactive challenge to modern civilisations and political structures, Choueiri...  Read More >>

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