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  • War on Sacred Grounds

    by Ron E. Hassner ...
    Series series Religion and Conflict
    In War on Sacred Grounds**, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of struggles over sites that are both venerated and contested, and proposes ways for managing these disputes.** Holy places can create the potential for clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors. Hassner illustrates this complex, violent dynamic through ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Anatomy of Torture

    by Ron E. Hassner ...
    Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the divide.The Inquisition ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Religion in the Military Worldwide

    Edited by Ron E. Hassner ...
    How does religion affect the lives of professional soldiers? How does religion shape militaries, their organization, procedures, and performance? This volume is the first to address these questions by comparing religious symbols and practices in nine countries: Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, India, the United States, and Turkey. The contributors explore how and why ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond

    Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments

    by Douglas L. Carver, LaShanda D. Hess-Hernandez, Jason Klocek, Dayne Nix, Gary E. Roberts, S.K. Moore, Ron E. Hassner, Eric Wester, Capt. Jon Cutler, Lt. Col. Eric Keller, Colonel Mike Hoyt, Pauletta Otis, Colonel William David West ...
    Series series Peace and Security in the 21st Century
    The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to take on new roles beyond providing religious services to the troops. Chaplains are now also required ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Religion on the Battlefield

    by Ron E. Hassner ...
    How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced modern militaries in the timing of attacks, the selection of targets for assault, the zeal ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • War on Sacred Grounds

    by Ron E. Hassner ...
    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, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956

    The Dynamics of Military Retaliation

    by Ze'ev Drory ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    Following Israel's War of Independence in 1948 and 1949, the anticipated peace did not materialize and the new nation soon found itself embroiled in protracted military conflict with neighbouring Arab states. Demobilization of its armed forces led to the formation of special elite unit under the command of Ariel Sharon to cope with cross-border infiltration, pillage and murder. A policy of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Forging Swords into Plows: A Twenty-First Century Christian Perspective on War

    by George Clifford ...
    The U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than three trillion dollars and caused tens of thousands of deaths. Was either war morally justifiable? Did either war make the world a safer, more peaceful place? Forging Swords into Plows develops a twenty-first century Christian perspective on war and then argues that both wars were immoral and resulted in a more ... Read more

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  • The Business of Martyrdom

    A History of Suicide Bombing

    by Jeffrey W Lewis PhD. ...
    The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day. It makes use of a framework from the history and philosophy of technology to explain the diffusion and evolution of suicide bombing over the past several decades. It is primarily a work of synthesis meant to reach a broad audience and endeavors to integrate as much ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    by Cullen Murphy ...
    "From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the 'inquisitorial impulse' alive, and only too well, in our world" (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were ... Read more

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  • Beyond Fundamentalism

    Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

    by Reza Aslan ...
    “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer“[A] thoughtful analysis of America’s War on Terror.”—The New YorkerThe wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attac. ... Read more

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  • The Father of Us All

    War and History, Ancient and Modern

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are ... Read more

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