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The inseparability of Christianity from the exercise of power by secular authorities in the Reformation era does not diminish the continuing ideological utility of singling out –religion’ as a supposedly discrete domain of human life particularly prone to violence.1

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Greengrass, M. (2013). Europe’s ‘Wars of Religion’ and their Legacies. In: Wolffe, J. (eds) Protestant-Catholic Conflict from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289735_2

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