Broken Altars Coping with stress Author(s): Chaikin

Author(s): Chaikin

The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart

Once forced to the sidelines of science

The relentless tempo of events defies belief

Broken Altars Coping with stress Author(s): ChaikinA 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 a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religious identity. In this book, Thomas Albert Howard presents a powerful account