CONTENTS
List of Maps vii
A Note About Terminology ix
Introduction: From Angels to Armageddon 1
ONE The Great War: The Age of Massacre 29
TWO God's War: Chris tian Nations, Holy Warfare, and the Kingdom of God 63
THREE Witnesses for Christ: Cosmic War, Sacrifi ce, and Martyrdom 87
FOUR The Ways of God: Faith, Heresy, and Superstition 109
FIVE The War of the End of the World: Visions of the Last Days 135
SIX Armageddon: Dreams of Apocalypse in the War's Savage Last Year 163
SEVEN The Sleep of Religion: Europe's Crisis and the Rise of Secular Messiahs 189
EIGHT The Ruins of Christendom: Reconstructing Chris tian Faith at the End of the Age 217
NINE A New Zion: The Crisis of European Judaism and the Vision of a New World 235
TEN Those from Below: The Spiritual Liberation of the World's Subject Peoples 269
ELEVEN Genocide: The Destruction of the Oldest Chris tian World 287
TWELVE African Prophets: How New Churches and New Hopes Arose Outside Europe 315
THIRTEEN Without a Caliph: The Muslim Quest for a Godly Political Order 333
Conclusion 367
Acknowledgments 379
Illustration Credits 381
Notes 383
Index 419