Holy War (disambiguation)

Holy war may refer to:

• A religious war led for religious reasons and with an exceptionally high grade of religious feeling
• The Crusades, 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against Muslim Persia and Middle East.
• The Herem referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
• Reconquista
• Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the slogan hakko ichiu.
• Taiping Rebellion
• Spread of Islam
• Jewish–Roman wars
• Arab-Israeli Wars (disambiguation)
• Way of the Celestial Masters
• Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
• Jihad (generally translated into English as "Holy War"), in Islam
• Wars of Religion (France)
• European wars of religion

Sports

• Holy War (Boston College vs. Notre Dame), a football rivalry between Boston College and Notre Dame
• Holy War (Utah vs. BYU), between Brigham Young University and the University of Utah
• Holy War (Villanova vs. St. Joe's), the Philadelphia Big 5 basketball rivalry game between Villanova University and Saint Joseph's University
• Holy War (Kraków), a traditional rivalry between Kraków's two major football clubs, Cracovia and Wisła
• Annual Ohio high school football rivalry between St. Edward and St. Ignatius
• The charity football game between the two San Diego Catholic high schools, University of San Diego High School and St. Augustine High School
• Occasionally used in reference to the Baylor–TCU football rivalry
• Occasionally used in reference to the defunct football rivalry between Boston College and Holy Cross

Transportation

• Holy War (locomotive) - a steam locomotive on the Bala Lake Railway in Wales.

Popular Culture

• "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", a song written by Megadeth on their 1990 album Rust in Peace.
• "Svyaschennaya Voyna" (The Sacred War), a song written on the day after the Nazi invasion of the USSR
• The Holy War, a 1682 novel by John Bunyan
• Holy Wars (film), 2010 documentary film
• Seisen no Keifu Genealogy of the Holy War a Fire Emblem videogame
• Holy War (album), the second album released by the power metal band Dragonland
• Holy War, Batman!
• Holy War, Inc., a 2001 book by CNN investigative journalist and documentarian Peter Bergen

See also

• Sacred War (disambiguation), name of several religiously motivated wars in ancient Greece
• Software wars, sometimes called holy wars