religious war
Faith-driven armed struggle
A religious war is armed conflict motivated by religious differences or fought to advance religious goals.
The term covers wars between faiths, sectarian violence within a faith, and campaigns to spread or defend a religion by force.
The Crusades were religious wars to reclaim the Holy Land.
The phrase sometimes appears in debates about whether specific conflicts are truly religious or merely use religion as cover for territorial or political aims.
- Northern CrusadesMedieval wars Christianizing northeastern Europe
- holy warArmed conflict over faith
- jihadIslamic struggle, inner or outer
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- sectarian violenceConflict between religious factions
war · pogrom · church and state · Albigensian Crusade · Reconquista · Thirty Years' War · iconoclasm · Crusades · military campaign · military operation · desecration · Troubles · English Civil War · ethnic cleansing · infidel · schism · apostasy · warlord
- WarsWorld War I, WWI, civil war, cold war, Korean War
- CrusadesFirst Crusade, crusade, crusader, Third Crusade, Knights Templar
- religious conflictholy war, sectarianism, Great Schism, crusade, schism
- Church Conflictsschism, Great Schism, church split, Investiture Controversy, Protestant Reformation
- Umayyad CaliphateUmayyad dynasty, Damascus, caliphate, caliph, caliphs
- Warrior Faithmilitary chaplain, foxhole prayer, army chaplain, chaplains, chaplaincy
religious warterritorial dispute
Conflict over land boundaries
resource war · border conflict · trade war · colonial war · war of conquest
religious warreligious tolerance
Acceptance of differing faiths
ecumenism · religious pluralism · interfaith dialogue · syncretism · peace treaty
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