In God's name: Genocide and religion in the 20th Century

Despite trends of secularisation throughout the 20th century, relgion has played a role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. This book offers a series of discrete case studies that examine the use of religion to legitimise and motivate genocide, the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder and the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.