God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0031Q9ZT2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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All rights reserved. . (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Frequently in the crosshairs of critics are the Christian wars against Muslims known as the Crusades, commonly viewed as the birth of European imperialism and the forced spread of Christianity. But what if we've had it all wrong? What if the Crusades were a justifiable response to a strong and determined foe? Stark, a prominent sociologist and author of 27 books on history and religion, has penned a compelling argument that these bloody encounters had less to do with spreading Christianity than with responding to an ever more dangerous enemy—the emerging Islamic
Stark, the author of The Rise of Christianity, reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this fascinating work of religious revisionist history.. In God’s Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression
Amazon Customer said Required reading for those who seek the truth. This book puts to rest the misguided notion that the Crusades were an unprovoked attack on Muslims by Christians. In fact, the Islamic world had been violently expanding into Christian territories for centuries and if the Crusades had not been launched, all of Europe would have been at risk.Furthermore, this book is invaluable for dispelling the belief that the West was wholly backwards prior to its contact with the Islamic world during the Crusades. Th. Masterful. Highest Recommendation Danusha V. Goska Rodney Stark's "God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades" is a minor masterpiece. I've never read another book that performs this book's very tough task this well: taking a massive amount of data, on a very complicated topic, and reducing it to a reader-friendly, briskly-paced, 248-page book that an amateur could read in a few enjoyable sittings.To write this book, Rodney Stark had to master a library full of material: the history of medieval Europe,. set forth by the Left/Progressives and Muslims who would like to perpetuate the myth that the Christian Crusades were John S. Landrum Fabulous short history of the Crusades that clears up all of the misinformation about the causes and purposes of the Crusades set forth by the Left/Progressives and Muslims who would like to perpetuate the myth that the Christian Crusades were about colonization, land grabs and suppression of Muslims.