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A religious war or a war of religion, sometimes also known as a holy war ( Latin: sanctum bellum ), is a war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs. In the modern period, there are frequent debates over the extent to which religious, economic, ethnic or other aspects of a conflict are predominant in a ...
Fighting the Holy Wars. The Crusades began in 1095 and raged, on and off, for the next two hundred years. During these centuries, the western Christian world pitted itself against what it thought of as the infidel, or the unbelievers, in the Middle East. In particular, Crusaders, (those who had "taken the cross," as this fighting for ...
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Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction. Killing thousands of people and causing wholesale destruction seems to be as far from holiness as one can get. But religion and war have gone hand in hand for a long time. Armies go into battle believing that God is with them, often after prayers and sacrifices to keep God on the...
Francis Bacon said there were five causes for holy war: (he wrote in a Christian context, but the categories would be usable by any faith) 1. to spread the faith 2. to retrieve countries that were once Christian, even though there are no Christians left there 3. to rescue Christians in countries that were once Christian from 'the servitude of the i...
The legitimate authority for a holy war is not the government of a state (except in a theocracy) but the Church, or the relevant organisation or person who heads the religious institution concerned. In ancient times the authority was often God - in the Bible there are several occasions where God gave direct instructions to peoples to wage war. This...
The third condition of a holy war is a spiritual reward for those who take part. The doctrine of the just war does not refer to any personal rewards for the participants - and such rewards would be against such a generally austere doctrine.
The first holy war was probably in October 312 CE when the Roman emperor Constantine saw a vision of the cross in the sky with this inscription "in hoc signo vinces" (in this sign you will win). Constantine trusted the vision and had the cross inscribed on his soldiers' armor. Even though his forces were outnumbered, he won the battle against an ar...
The great series of western holy wars were the Crusades, which lasted from 1095 until 1291 CE. The aim was to capture the sacred places in the Holy Land from the Muslims who lived there, so it was intended as a war to right wrongs done against Christianity. The first Crusade was started by Pope Urban II in 1095. He raged at the capture of the holy ...
Medieval Holy Wars. By Alfred J. Andrea. Holy war is sanctified violence, violence made holy through service to one or many deities or to a set of religious beliefs. Such violence is rooted in antiquity and has found a home in every religious tradition from animism to Zoroastrianism. Contrary to popular belief, the Abrahamic religions of ...
