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This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The articles are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceana. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the essays explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The...

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Author

Matthew Rowley, Dr.; Natasha R Hodgson

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367767280

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Religion