Product Description: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia...read more

Product Description: A quick tour rather than a comprehensive treatment, to ready readers to study pacifism in the 20th century, Brock's 1970 account of which has just appeared in a new edition. Looks at the prehistory, early Christians, the age of the democratic revolution, the US before and during the Civil War, and other topics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)