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RR 2004/301 Encyclopedia of Religion and War Edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez Routledge New York, NY and London 2004 xvi+530 pp. ISBN 0 415 94246 2 £130/$125 Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society
Keywords Religion, War
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410552435
As the editor mournfully points out in his introduction, few of us in the 1960s and 1970s believed that religion would be a major force in world conflict in the next century! The general belief was that the influence of religion was on the decline and would become a purely private matter. How wrong we were! The world now seems a violent place, with religious fundamentalism a major force. The struggles of nation-states have receded as conflicts between groups representing different religions and ethnic and linguistic minorities have increased: Hindus and Muslims in India;...