Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History

by Thomas Albert Howard

A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300263619
• ISBN13: 9780300263619
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 296 Pages