Religia w służbie wojny, wojna w służbie religii
Religion In the service of war, war in the service of religion

Summary/Abstract: Belief systems and armed conflicts can be included in the catalog of factors influencing the creation and strengthening of social structures. Although it would seem that the above aspects of human activity are completely opposite, it is possible to notice a certain kind of relationship between them. Despite the connection with completely different spheres of human life, war and religion have intertwined with each other throughout history, shaped and influenced each other. The article below is intended to demonstrate the above-mentioned relationship by discussing the mechanisms of creating mutual dependencies between war and religion; provide examples of the use of the above-mentioned mechanisms; and to be an attempt to answer the question of how religions were able to contribute to wars and whether at the turn of history the opposite could have happened, in which the armed conflict served specific purposes of belief systems.

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