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Religious wars
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: swanne19-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
19 Apr 2004 17:12 PDT
Expires: 19 May 2004 17:12 PDT Question ID: 332794 |
what percentage of wars have been fought because of religion - how many religous wars have there been? |
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Re: Religious wars
From: pinkfreud-ga on 19 Apr 2004 17:16 PDT |
This article might interest you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3513709.stm |
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Re: Religious wars
From: neilzero-ga on 21 Apr 2004 05:16 PDT |
Do you want to count wars before 1900? Your question supposes wars have a single cause. Two or three approximately equal causes is typical plus a dozen or so minor causes, one of which is usually religion. While religion is often an excuse for war, it is rarely the dominent cause in my opinion. So pick a number and try to justify that number. 4% of all wars were religious wars. Also the definition of war has some baring: were there a million wars in the 20th century or only 13 wars? Do you want to average the Watts riots in Los Angeles equally with World war 2? Neil |
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Re: Religious wars
From: politicalguru-ga on 06 May 2004 07:27 PDT |
The answer to your question is: none. There is no such thing, and there was no such thing as wars fought "because of religion". Religion is always combined with other elements, social and political. Christian Smith writes in the introduction to the book "Disruptive Religion" (Routledge 1998): "[...]The conflict in Northern Ireland, for example, is not merely a controversy about Catholic versus Protestant beliefs and Protestant beliefs and practices. It is also a struggle over the political rule of a geographic territory. The same is true of the "Religious Wars", fought between European catholics and Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[...]" (p. 8). |
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