![]() ![]() Since my teens I have read a great deal of military history, but until now I had not written any myself. Why did you want to write God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades and what makes this book different from others? The Crusades is a topic that generates a lot of books each year. Given current tensions in the Middle East and terrorist attacks around the world, Stark’s views are a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding and are sure to spark debate.” ![]() Although the Crusades were initiated by a plea from the pope, Stark argues that this had nothing to do with any elaborate design of the Christian world to convert all Muslims to Christianity by force of arms. In his latest work, God’s Battalions, Professor Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression.Īccording to its publisher, “Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places. Rodney Stark, Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University is a well-known scholar of religious history who has published over two dozen books. ![]()
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