of theOutstanding Reference Sources Award,
For a complete list of Outstanding Reference Sources Award winners, please visit sitelink rusaupdate. org/awards/outs . "Containing someentries covering the interaction between war and religion from ancient times, the threevolume War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict provides students with an invaluable reference source for examining two of the most important phenomena impacting society today.
This allinclusive reference work will serve readers researching specific religious traditions, historical eras, wars, battles, or influential individuals across all time periods.
The AZ entries document ancient events and movements such as the First Crusade that began at the end of theth century as well as modernday developments like ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Subtopics throughout the encyclopedia include religious and military leaders or other key people, ideas, and weapons, and comprehensive examinations of each of the major religious traditions' views on war and violence are presented.
The work also includes dozens of primary source documentseach introduced by a headnotethat enable readers to go directly to the source of information and better grasp its historical significance.
The indepth content of this set benefits high school and college students as well as scholars and general readers, Features: Enables readers to explore the ongoing and important relationship between war and religion across history through coverage of the wars themselves the important leaders, battles, and campaigns and the treaties that resulted from these wars directs readers to further reading
material and supplies a comprehensive bibliography that guides further inquiry into the topic of war and religion supplies primary source documents that include letters written by participants of the Crusades, proclamations and declarations from the Protestant Reformation, and UN documents related to war and religion"Publisher description.
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