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

Submitted by FHMaster on Sun, 01/15/2017 - 11:06

"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.