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Article: Religion and politics in the age of totalitarianism.(Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror)(Book review)
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- April 27, 2007
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SACRED CAUSES: THE CLASH OF RELIGION AND POLITICS, FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR By Michael Burleigh HarperCollins $27.95, 557 pages
Sacred Causes, Michael Burleigh's latest work of history, reads as though it was written by several authors for different audiences.
The bulk of the book describes the use of religious themes by the totalitarian political systems that threw the world into turmoil from the 1920s to the 1980s. Here Dr. Burleigh especially displays his scholarly knowledge of modern Germany, with some striking insights into the ways in which the Vatican and Popes Pius XI and XII approached the Nazi regime and the plight of the Jews. ...