War and Religion in the Secular Age - 9781138337480

Taylor & Francis

War and Religion in the Secular AgeFaith and Interstate Armed Conflict Onset\nAuthor(s): Davis Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138337480, 978-1138337480\nSynopsis\nIs religion a factor in initiating interstate armed conflict, and do different religions have different effects? Breaking new ground in political science, this book explores these questions both qualitatively and quantitively, concluding that the answer is yes.\n\nPrevious studies have focused on conflict within states or interstate aggression with overtly religious motivations; in contrast, Brown shows how religion affects states propensities to militarize even disputes that are not religious in nature. Different religions are shown to have different influences on those propensities, and those influences are linked to the war ethics inculcated in those religions. The book analyses and classifies war ethics contained in religious scripture and o.