- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I Modernity and Religion -
1 The Death of God -
2 The Return of God -
3 God’s Revenge -
Part II The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s -
4 Religion and Power in the 1970s -
5 The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution -
6 The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War -
7 The Catholicization of Modernity -
Part III The Holy War -
8 The Clash of Civilizations -
9 The Clash of Ignorance -
10 The Bloody Borders of Religion -
11 Terrorism -
Part IV The Holy Alliance -
12 Dialogue Among Civilizations -
13 The Catholic Alliance -
14 The Holy Alliance -
15 All Roads Lead to Rome - Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Holy Wars and Holy Alliance
- Author(s):
Manlio Graziano
, Brian Knowlton- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
The world today is experiencing a striking disruption of the international balance of power, perhaps as sweeping as the shift in the geopolitical axis that occurred with the arrival of the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century. In examining these changes through the prism of international politics, this book is structured around a certainty and a hypothesis. The certainty: the forces and political forms we grew accustomed to in the twentieth century are undergoing an all-out metamorphosis. The hypothesis: some of the voids they have left are being filled by religion and religious groups....
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I Modernity and Religion -
1 The Death of God -
2 The Return of God -
3 God’s Revenge -
Part II The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s -
4 Religion and Power in the 1970s -
5 The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution -
6 The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War -
7 The Catholicization of Modernity -
Part III The Holy War -
8 The Clash of Civilizations -
9 The Clash of Ignorance -
10 The Bloody Borders of Religion -
11 Terrorism -
Part IV The Holy Alliance -
12 Dialogue Among Civilizations -
13 The Catholic Alliance -
14 The Holy Alliance -
15 All Roads Lead to Rome - Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life