In passato si parlava anche di "guerra civile dei bianchi", il cui scannamento avrebbe favorito la rivolta dei popoli di colore [SGA].
Philip Jenkins: The Great and Holy War. How World War I Became a Religious Crusade, HarperOne
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The Great and Holy War offers the
first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At
the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian
Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this
modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western
civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the
twentieth century.
The war was fought by the world's leading
Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to
the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and
militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using
language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and
Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins
reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and
the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all
three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the
way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes
and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political
climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as
Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism.
Connecting numerous
remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the
Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and
persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and
spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and
motivated circumstances on all sides of the war.
Andrea Galli Avvenire 8 novembre 2014
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