{"product_id":"9780099564980","title":"Fields of Blood : Religion and the History of Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Armstrong, Karen \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/09\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 528 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099564980,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Religion is as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eback to the Stone Age hunter-gatherers and traces religion through the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies, from medieval crusaders to modern-day jihadists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* The West today has a warped concept of religion: we regard faith as a personal and private matter, but for most of history faith has informed people’s entire outlook on life, and often been inseparable from politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Humans undoubtedly have a natural propensity for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaggression: the founders of the largest religions – Jesus, Buddha, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erabbis of early Judaism, the prophet Muhammad – aimed to curb violence and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebuild a more peaceful and just society, but with our growing greed for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoney and wealth came collective violence and warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* With the arrival of the modern all-powerful, secular\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estate humanity’s destructive potential has begun to spiral out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs humanity on the brink of destroying itself?Fields of Blood is a celebration of the ancient religious ideas and movements that have promoted peace and reconciliation across millennia of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697418797100,"sku":"9780099564980","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099564980_42db23bd-75fd-4dc8-97f3-65af5cb6256a.jpg?v=1759681844","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780099564980","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}