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100 1 a| Howard, Thomas Albert,d| 1967-e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrCfx4vbQcWyyQmXYqG73=| ^A423116;

245 10 a| Broken altars :b| secularist violence in modern history /c| Thomas Albert Howard.;

264 1 a| New Haven ;a| London :b| Yale University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| vii, 281 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- Three Ways -- Secularist onslaughts -- Soviet severities -- Eastern Europe -- Red Asia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.;

520 a| "A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religous identity. In Broken Altars, Thomas Albert Howard presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths, and destruction visited on religious communities by secularist regimes in the twentieth century. Presenting three principal forms of modern secularism that have arisen since the Enlightenment--passive secularism, combative secularism, and eliminationist secularism--Howard argues that the latter two have been especially violence-prone. Westerners do not fully grasp this, however, because they often mistake the first form, passive secularism, for secularism as a whole. But a disconcertingly more complicated picture emerges with the adoption of a broader global vision. Admitting different species of secularism, greater historical perspective, and case studies drawn from the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Mexico, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Mongolia, and China, among other countries, Howard calls into question the conventional tale of modernity as the pacifying triumph of secularism over a benighted religious past."--Inside cover.;

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Broken altars : secularist violence in modern history / Thomas Albert Howard.

Author/creator	Howard, Thomas Albert, 1967- author.
Format	Book
Publication	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	vii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Violence--Religious aspects. Secularism. Freedom of religion. Religion and state.

Contents	Introduction -- Three Ways -- Secularist onslaughts -- Soviet severities -- Eastern Europe -- Red Asia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Abstract	"A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religous identity. In Broken Altars, Thomas Albert Howard presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths, and destruction visited on religious communities by secularist regimes in the twentieth century. Presenting three principal forms of modern secularism that have arisen since the Enlightenment--passive secularism, combative secularism, and eliminationist secularism--Howard argues that the latter two have been especially violence-prone. Westerners do not fully grasp this, however, because they often mistake the first form, passive secularism, for secularism as a whole. But a disconcertingly more complicated picture emerges with the adoption of a broader global vision. Admitting different species of secularism, greater historical perspective, and case studies drawn from the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Mexico, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Mongolia, and China, among other countries, Howard calls into question the conventional tale of modernity as the pacifying triumph of secularism over a benighted religious past."--Inside cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index.
ISBN	9780300263619
ISBN	0300263619 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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