Editing Albigensian Crusade (section)

===Genocide===
[[File:Albigensian Crusade 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[Pope Innocent III]] excommunicating the [[Albigensians]] (left). Massacre against the Albigensians by the Crusaders (right).]]

[[Raphael Lemkin]], who coined the word "[[genocide]]" in the 20th century,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=3b7255121c&query=genocide%20convention |title=Lemkin, Raphael |publisher=[[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] |access-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> referred to the Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive [[Genocides in history|cases of genocide]] in [[religious history]]".{{sfn|Lemkin|2012|p=71}} [[Mark Gregory Pegg]] wrote, "The Albigensian Crusade ushered genocide into the West by linking divine salvation to [[mass murder]], by making slaughter as loving an act as His sacrifice on the cross."{{sfn|Pegg|2008|p=188}}

[[Robert E. Lerner]] argued that Pegg's classification of the Albigensian Crusade as a genocide was inappropriate on the grounds that it "was proclaimed against unbelievers&nbsp;... not against a 'genus' or people; those who joined the crusade had no intention of annihilating the population of southern France&nbsp;... If Pegg wishes to connect the Albigensian Crusade to modern ethnic slaughter, well—words fail me (as they do him)."{{sfn|Lerner|2010|p=92}}

[[Laurence Marvin]] is not as dismissive as Lerner regarding Pegg's contention that the Albigensian Crusade was a genocide, but he takes issue with Pegg's argument that the Albigensian Crusade formed an important historical precedent for later genocides, including the [[Holocaust]].{{sfn|Marvin|2009|pp=801–802}}

Kurt Jonassohn and Karin Solveig Björnson describe the Albigensian Crusade as "the first ideological genocide".{{sfn|Jonassohn|Björnson|1998|p=50}} Kurt Jonassohn and Frank Chalk (who together founded the [[Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies]]) include a detailed case study of the Albigensian Crusade in their [[genocide studies]] textbook ''The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies'', authored by Strayer and [[Malise Ruthven]].{{sfn|Chalk|Jonassohn|1990|pp=114–138}}