. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine…

- Philip Jenkins

It is also amazing to find just how religious and occult-minded some of the leading political and military players of the war were, from von Moltke a…

- Philip Jenkins

Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany …

- Philip Jenkins

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

- Philip Jenkins

In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalist…

- Philip Jenkins

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't j…

- Philip Jenkins

The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with …

- Philip Jenkins

Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of al…

- Philip Jenkins

Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until…

- Philip Jenkins