Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Classical Foundations
- Part II Just War
- Part III Religious Nationalism
- Part IV Featured Conflicts
- 19 Christian Crusading, Ritual, and Liturgy
- 20 A Paradigm of Pious Jihād in the Muslim Ethos
- 21 Fierce Goddesses of India
- 22 The Demonological Framework of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace
- 23 War Outside the State
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
- References
19 - Christian Crusading, Ritual, and Liturgy
from Part IV - Featured Conflicts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Classical Foundations
- Part II Just War
- Part III Religious Nationalism
- Part IV Featured Conflicts
- 19 Christian Crusading, Ritual, and Liturgy
- 20 A Paradigm of Pious Jihād in the Muslim Ethos
- 21 Fierce Goddesses of India
- 22 The Demonological Framework of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace
- 23 War Outside the State
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
Christian liturgy and ritual underpinned the practice and ideals of holy war and especially the Crusades (11th–16th centuries) in the medieval Christian imagination. As the mechanism of connecting the salvific and eschatological to the secular events of war and warfare, the liturgy – in the form of knightly blessings, votive masses for war, and penitential processions – articulated and sacralized the ideology of holy war throughout the period.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War , pp. 385 - 401Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023