Remembering Armageddon
By Philip Jenkins
Without appreciating its religious and spiritual aspects, we cannot understand the First World War. More important, the world’s modern religious history makes no sense except in the context of that terrible conflict. The war created our reality. In March 2014, Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion convened a highly successful symposium entitled Remembering Armageddon, to reflect on the role of religion in the First World War and the relationship between Christianity and state violence. This volume collects the contributions to that symposium. Editor and Contributor Philip Jenkins was educated at Cambridge University. From 1980 through 2011, he taught at Penn State University, where he holds the rank of Emeritus Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities. In 2012, he became a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, where he also serves in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published twenty-five books, including The Next Christendom (2002), The Lost History of Christianity (2008), and The Great and Holy War (2014). Other contributors include: Barry Hankins, Darin D. Lenz, Sarah Miglio, and Richard M. Gamble. ISR Books (Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University) titles are distributed by Cardinal Publishers Group. |