Why the Nations Rage [Paperback]

Christopher Catherwood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1998

A clearly written examination of religious nationalism and mass murder.Nationalism is one of the most potent forces of the 20th century. Tens of millions have died as a result of wars since 1900. Nationalism has been blamed as the cause for many of them, right up to the recent conflict and ``ethnic cleansing'' in Bosnia. In Why the Nations Rage, historian Chistopher Catherwood looks at nationalism and how it has merged in lethal combination with religion. Among the questions he addresses are: How do the peace-bearing tenets of religion become so perverted as to arouse hatred and war? How do nations become so unbalanced that to murder one's neighbor is regarded as good rather than evil? This accessibly written examination helps us to better understand one of the crucial issues of our time. Christopher Catherwood is a historian and Senior Research Associate at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He has traveled extensively in the former Yugoslavia and other trouble spots. 271 pp 5 x 8

Product Details

• Paperback: 271 pages
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340690623
• ISBN-13: 978-0340690628
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,873,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Catherwood, a tutor for the Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education and an instructor at the University of Richmond's School for Continuing Education, has written and edited more than twenty-five books, including Five Evangelical Leaders, Martyn Lloyd-Jones: A Family Portrait, and Christians, Muslims, and Islamic Rage. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford in modern history and resides in Cambridge with his wife, Paulette.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Prescient and Insightful Analysis of Relgious Conflict and Terroism, September 15, 2010

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This review is from: Why the Nations Rage (Paperback)

This book addresses the problem of sectarian strife, with Yugoslavia as the primary example. Even though this book was published in 1998, this author had already gleaned a clearer understanding of the nature of religious-based terrorism than that articulated in any post 9/11 book that I can recall. Especially compelling is the author's ability to place the reader in the world of the unfortunate civilian of a nation suffering from religious conflict--whether that be Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yugoslavia. He asks you to imagine what such a conflict would be like in your own (Western) country and community--bringing to my mind a horrible world where (for example) Catholics were set against Protestants. He reminds us that in order to protect ourselves and our family in such a world, we might be forced to ally ourselves with unsavory elements formerly considered to be on the fringe of the religious or ethnic group that we were born into--a situation almost too terrible to contemplate!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous book, August 27, 1998

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This review is from: Why the Nations Rage (Paperback)

This is a great book - it really helped me to understand what is happening in this war torn part of the world, especially all that is happening in Kosovo right now.