A Fatal Addiction (Record no. 52393)
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| control field | OCoLC |
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| control field | 20200709055719.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 130223s2012 nyu o 000 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | EBLCP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | EBLCP |
| Modifying agency | OCLCQ |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780875869322 (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0875869327 (electronic bk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)828302709 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | 521648 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BL65.V55 B57 2012 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | REL |
| Subject category code subdivision | 084000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 201.7273 |
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| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) | |
| Holding library | N$TA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Block, Thomas. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Fatal Addiction |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | War in the Name of God. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Algora Pub., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction; Truth; America: A Case Study in the Difference between Truth and Reality; One Truth; A Time-Honored Truth; A Religious People; Uncovered Truth; The Truth Shall Never Dissuade; America the Bellicose; Chapter One: War; Violence and Society; Violence and Spirituality; Violence and The Scapegoat; Violence of God; War and Religion; War and the State; A Parsimonious God; War and the Warrior; War is Beautiful; War is Sublime; War is Love; A Love of Killing; War as Mysticism; War is Holy; Chapter Two: From the Beginning of Humanity; Original Human. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Primitive Religion and the Birth of the Violent GodSacrifice; Babylonian Religion: Creation from Destruction; The Greek and Roman Religions; Greek Gods and War; God and Sacrifice; Aristotle and Plato; Rome; Mars; Chapter Three: Judaism; Jewish Scripture; An Atmosphere Pervaded with Violence; The Jewish God and His Battered Spouse; Sacrifice, Martyrdom and the Will of God; Israel: God, Land and the Other; "just war"; Judaism Today -- More of the Same?; How the Jewish Bible Affects Christianity; Sacrifice; And Echoes in Islam; Chapter Four: Christianity; Jesus -- a Message of Peace? |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The Early Church FathersMartyrdom; The First Council of Nicaea and the Fall of Christianity; "just war"; Error Has No Right; The Holy Roman Empire; Augustinian Influence on Later Christian Thinkers; The Principle of Double Effect; Protestant War; The Crusades; The Inquisition; Christianity Today; Chapter Five: Islam; Early Islam; Scriptures; Jihad; A Blood Covenant; Islam Today; A "just war"; Chapter Six: Hinduism; Bhagavad Gita; Violent Imagery; "Just war"; Hindus Today; Sikhism; Chapter Seven: Buddhism; Violent Imagery; Buddhist Liturgy; More Violent Imagery; Buddhism and the State. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | "Just war" TheoryJapan; Exceptionalism; The Sword and the Lotus; Monks and War; Sugimoto; Zen, the State and a "just war"; China; The Tao of Slaughter; Violent Imagery; Chinese Buddhism and the Korean War; India; Violence in Indian Buddhism; Ashoka; Reverberations: Violence in Indian Buddhism Today; Tibet; Born of Violence and Violent Still; Thailand; Buddhist Apocalypse; Military Monk; Sri Lanka; Mongolia; Et Tu, United States?; Final Thoughts; Chapter Eight: War as Love; Abraham's Curse; Love, War and Sacrifice in the 21st Century; America: A Case Study in Sacred Violence. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | America: The New IsraelSacrificing for God and Country; American History: Our Violence is God's Will; George W. Bush, September 11, 2001, and America's 21st-Century Crusade; Bush's Minions: You're Either With Us or Against Us; God, War and the American Worldview; On the Fringe?; Epilogue; War as Mysticism: Redux; Religion and Violence: A Reconsideration; Sacrifice Revisited; Will, Violence and God's Purpose; War, God and the Act of Creation; Le Plus ça Change; War the Boundless; Without sacred violence, would society be possible?; A Conclusion; Violence and Chaos; Endnotes; Bibliography. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This unsettling book reviews specific instances of 'holy war' as proposed in the holy books of the major faith traditions, and illustrates how bellicose, war-like language is used to explain the spiritual quest. The author proposes that this intermingling of war and spirituality prepares the population for the coming of war. War as spiritual practice appears inevitable, due to this religio-violent education which is woven through all faith traditions. The institutional blending of the sacred and human aggression appear to be fundamental to human society. The second section of the book particu. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Violence |
| General subdivision | Religious aspects. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | War |
| General subdivision | Religious aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Violence |
| General subdivision | Religious aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | War |
| General subdivision | Religious aspects. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Block, Thomas |
| Title | A Fatal Addiction : War in the Name of God |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | New York : Algora Publishing, c2012 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780875869308 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Ebook Library |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1085192">http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1085192</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | EBSCOhost |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=521648">http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=521648</a> |
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| 910 ## - USER-OPTION DATA (OCLC) | |
| User-option data | cpp1723AUTO |
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