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The religious roots of the Syrian conflict : the remaking of the Fertile Crescent
- Title
- The religious roots of the Syrian conflict : the remaking of the Fertile Crescent / Mark Tomass.
- Author
- Tomass, Mark, 1961-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Exploring both the historical origins of Syria's religious sects and their present-day dominance of the Syrian social scene, The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict identifies these groups' distinct beliefs and relates how the actions of the religious authorities and political entrepreneurs acting on behalf of their particular sects expose them to sectarian violence, culminating in the dissolution of the nation-state. Mark Tomass employs ethnographic accounts used in anthropology and conceptual tools based in economics to describe the formation of sectarian groups, a multidisciplinary approach which details how the sects have consistently generated civil conflicts within the Fertile Crescent, both before and after the formation of the nation-states of Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria."--
- Series Statement
- Twenty-first century perspectives on war, peace, and human conflict
- Uniform Title
- Twenty-first century perspectives on war, peace, and human conflict.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. The significance of religious identity -- 2. The Fertile Crescent meets the Muslim Arabs -- 3. Formation of the Jewish identity -- 4. Formation of Christian sectarian identities -- 5. Formation of Muslim sectarian identities -- 6. The Islamization of the Fertile Crescent -- 7. Social and psychological origins of religious conflict -- 8. The New Media and the Islamic Awakening -- 9. From the Arab Spring to the revolt of the Sunna -- 10. The remaking of the Fertile Crescent -- 11. Aleppo War photographs, 2012-14.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1471
- ISBN
- 9781137531490
- 1137531495
- 9781137525673 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781137525710 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015027216
- OCLC
- 918877379
- Author
- Tomass, Mark, 1961- author.
- Title
- The religious roots of the Syrian conflict : the remaking of the Fertile Crescent / Mark Tomass.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Twenty-first century perspectives on war, peace, and human conflictTwenty-first century perspectives on war, peace, and human conflict.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1471