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Fields of blood [large type] : religion and the history of violence / Karen Armstrong.

by Armstrong, Karen, 1944-

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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.

Violence -- Religious aspects.

9781410474124 (large print)

1410474127 (large print)

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.

985 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Large Print edition.

Farmers and herdsmen -- India: The noble path -- China: Warriors and gentlement -- The Hebrew dilemma -- Jesus: Not of this world? -- Byzantium: The tragedy of empire -- The Muslim dilemma -- Crusade and jihad -- The arrival of "religion" -- The triumph of the secular -- Religion fights back -- Holy terror -- Global jihad.

For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness -- something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Daoism, taking us on a journey from prehistoric times to the present.

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