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Moral purity and persecution in history
- Title
- Moral purity and persecution in history / Barrington Moore, Jr.
- Author
- Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BJ1533.P97 M66 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 158 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Moore takes up tools of historical comparison to investigate why groups of people kill and torture each other. His answer is arrestingly simple: people persecute those whom they perceive as polluting due to their "impure" religious, political, or economic ideas." "Moore's provocative conclusion is that monotheism - with its monopoly on virtue and failure to provide supernatural scapegoats - is responsible for some of the most virulent forms of intolerance and is a major cause of human nastiness and suffering. Moore does not say that the monotheist tradition was the primary source of Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, violent Hindu fundamentalism or ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, but he does identify it as an indispensable cause because it justified, encouraged, and spread vindictive persecution throughout the world."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-150) and index.
- Contents
- Moral purity and impurity in the Old Testament -- Purity in the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France -- Purity as a revolutionary concept in the French Revolution -- Notes on purity and pollution in Asiatic civilizations.
- ISBN
- 0691049203
- 9780691049205
- LCCN
- 99048668
- OCLC
- ocm42643496
- 42643496
- SCSB-1031925
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library