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Can I read Fields of Blood : Religion and the History of Violence on EtoBox?
Fields of Blood : Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fields of Blood : Religion and the History of Violence about?
From the renowned and best-selling author of __A History of God__, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness—something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? With deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong sets out to discover the truth about religion and violence in each of the world’s great traditions, taking us on an astonishing journey from prehistoric times to the present. While many historians have looked at violence in connection with particular religious manifestations (jihad in Islam or Christianity’s Crusades), Armstrong looks at each faith—not only Christianity and Islam, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism—in its totality over time. As she describes, each arose in an agrarian society with plenty powerful landowners brutalizing peasants while also warring among themselves over land, then the only real source of wealth. In this world, religion was not the discrete and personal m
Who reads Fields of Blood : Religion and the History of Violence?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Karen Armstrong
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307401960
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, Religious Conflict
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (1,183 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14