Sacred War
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Philip Ii And The Sacred War
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Author : John Buckler
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Philip Ii And The Sacred War written by John Buckler and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Preliminary Material -- The peace of 362 BC -- The road to war (363-357 BC) -- First blood (355-354 BC) -- Onomarchos, Philip, and Thessaly (354-353 BC) -- The war widens (353-347 BC) -- Peace in 346 BC -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Internal politics at Delphoi -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- List of Plates.
Fighting Identity
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Author : Michael Vlahos
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Fighting Identity written by Michael Vlahos and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with History categories.
This work highlights a national ethos infused by a sacred narrative of divine mission. This deep association leads to a narrow approach to conflict relationships, built around an Us vs. Them distance from the enemy, in which their submission is achieved through kinetic effects and their subsequent redemption through our good works (reconstruction). Vlahos contends that America's difficult engagement in the Muslim world demonstrates urgently that different operational approaches and tactics (like counterinsurgency) are not enough. Alternative paradigms of strategic engagement are needed, but their very consideration requires deeper cultural rethinking about how we assess world change and other cultures, and how our national ethos makes war. Why are terrorists and insurgents we fight so formidable? Their strength - and our vulnerability - is in identity. Clausewitz knew that geist (spirit) was always stronger than the material: identity is power in war. But how can non-state actors face up to nation states? The answer is in globalization. This is the West's 3rd globalization. Two centuries of intense mixing has torn down old ways of life and created a growing demand for new belonging. There is also a decline in US universalism. America's vision as history's anointed prophet and manager is now competing head-to-head with renewed universal visions. Like Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages our globalization begins to subside. We may be in the later days of American modernity. We can see this worldwide, as emerging local communities within states and meta-movements find their voice - through conflict and war. Identities struggling for realization are always the most powerful. Add the diffusion of new technology and new practice, and even the poorest and seemingly most primitive group can now make war against those on high. They are successful because of a symbiotic fit between old states and new identities. Increasingly, old societies no longer find identity-celebration in war - while non-state identities embrace the struggle for realization. Hence non-state wars with America become a mythic narrative for them. Our engagement actually helps them realize identity - and we become the midwife. This book offers another path to deal with non-state challenges, one that does not further weaken us.
Sacred Scripture Sacred War
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Author : James P. Byrd
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-09
Sacred Scripture Sacred War written by James P. Byrd and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with History categories.
Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side, Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans would invoke repeatedly throughout the struggle for independence. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd offers the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as primarily a book about war. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield. When war came, preachers and patriots alike turned to scripture not only for solace but for exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, conferred on those who died for the Revolution the halo of martyrdom, and gave Americans a sense of the divine providence of their cause. Many histories of the Revolution have noted the connection between religion and war, but Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is the first to provide a detailed analysis of specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic case for war. Combing through more than 500 wartime sources, which include more than 17,000 biblical citations, Byrd shows precisely how the Bible shaped American war, and how war in turn shaped Americans' view of the Bible. Brilliantly researched and cogently argued, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War sheds new light on the American Revolution.
Sacred War
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Author : Theodore F. Cook
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
Sacred War written by Theodore F. Cook and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with History categories.
The first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historians A magisterial work of political, social, and military history, Sacred War sets a new standard for understanding the events that forever transformed America, Japan, and the world. Celebrated historians Theodore F. and Haruko Taya Cook, whose oral history of the Pacific war was called “one of the essential books about World War II” (Philadelphia Inquirer), now offer a shattering new history of Japan’s long war in the Pacific, told exclusively from the perspective of the Japanese. Sacred War draws on a rich trove of documents, much of it first-person and almost all of it previously inaccessible to Western scholars. Based on painstaking research, here is World War II through the eyes of the Japanese themselves: ordinary people on the home front, soldiers on the front lines, and the military and political leadership who drove Japan to near-annihilation by 1945. Sacred War reveals both the internal logic of an authoritarian society bent on victory at all costs—including, in the final twelve months of the war, over one million civilian deaths—as well as heart-rending accounts of the unfolding conflict, from the disease-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal to the burnt-out streets of Hiroshima, following the nuclear attacks by the United States that brought the war to its devastating end.
Sacred War Nationalism And Revolution In A Divided Vietnam
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Author : William Duiker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Sacred War Nationalism And Revolution In A Divided Vietnam written by William Duiker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Discusses the origins, the conduct and the social impact of the war in Vietnam from the Vietnamese perspective.
Sacred War
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Author : C S Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-02-25
Sacred War written by C S Wilde and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with categories.
She looked the devil in the eye, and he said, "You're mine." Master's army is closing on the Legion. In a race to save those she loves, Ava will have to join forces with her greatest enemy. Master is a heartless monster, but he claims he needs her. Opening herself to his darkness may be the only way to win this war. Meanwhile, Liam must find a way to rescue his soulmate and defeat their foe, but he and Master might have more in common than he'd like to admit. The war is here. And gods will rise. SACRED WAR is the thrilling final book in the Angels of Fate series. Book 0 - (Prequel) - Blessed Light Book 1 - Blessed Fury Book 2 - Cursed Darkness Book 3 - Sacred War
Sacred Scripture Sacred War
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Sacred Scripture Sacred War written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
War On Sacred Grounds
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Author : Ron E. Hassner
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-15
War On Sacred Grounds written by Ron E. Hassner and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Political Science categories.
Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors. In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided. The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner's account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.
The Macedonian Empire
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Author : James R. Ashley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-03-19
The Macedonian Empire written by James R. Ashley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-19 with History categories.
The Macedonian Empire lasted only 36 years, beginning with Philip II's assumption of the throne in 359 B.C. and ending with the death of his son Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. In that span, the two leaders changed the map in the known world. Philip established new tactics that forever ended the highly stylized mode that had characterized Classic Greek warfare, and Alexander's superb leadership made the army an unstoppable force. This work first examines the 11 great armies and three great navies of the era, along with their operations and logistics. The primary focus is then on each campaign and significant battle fought by Philip or Alexander, detailing how the battles were fought, the tactics of the opposing armies, and how the Macedonians were able to triumph.
Sacred Causes
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Author : Michael Burleigh
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Sacred Causes written by Michael Burleigh and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Religion categories.
Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements of the twentieth century are masterfully captured here, from Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain through to the modern scourge of terrorism. Eloquently and persuasively combining an authoritative survey of history with a timely reminder of the dangers of radical secularism, Burleigh asks why no one foresaw the religious implications of massive Third World immigration, and he deftly investigates what are now driving calls for a civic religion to counter the terrorist threats that have so shocked the West.