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Author Engh, M. J.

Title In the name of heaven : 3,000 years of religious persecution / Mary Jane Engh.

Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  200.9 En31i 2007    ---  Available
Description 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Egypt, fourteenth century BCE -- 2. Judah and Israel, seventh century BCE -- 3. Greece, fifth and fourth centuries BCE -- 4. Rome, second and first centuries BCE -- 5. Judea, second century BCE -- 6. Roman Empire, first and second centuries CE -- 7. Roman Empire, third and fourth centuries -- 8. Persia, second through sixth centuries -- 9. Roman Empire, fourth and fifth centuries -- 10. The Germanic kingdoms, fifth through eighth centuries -- 11. Byzantine Empire, sixth through tenth centuries -- 12. Islamic Empire, seventh through fifteenth centuries -- 13. Europe, eleventh through fifteenth centuries -- 14. Asia, fifth through seventeenth centuries -- 15. Africa, eighteenth through nineteenth centuries -- 16. Europe, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- 17. North and South America, sixteenth through eighteenth centuries -- 18. France, eighteenth century -- 19. Oceania and Australia, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 20. East Asia, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 21. Europe, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 22. North and South America, nineteenth century -- Epilogue : The twentieth century and after.
Summary Provides an overview of religious violence around the world from the fourteenth century BCE through the nineteenth century CE and explains who did what to whom on the basis of religious differences and disagreements.
Subject Persecution -- History.
ISBN 1591024544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781591024545 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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