1st Edition

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia Disrupting Violence

Edited By Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon Copyright 2007
208 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in... Read more

Preface Part One: 1.Introduction: Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia Linell E. Cady and Sheldon W. Simon  2. From Bhindranwale to bin Laden: A Search for Understanding Religious Violence Mark Juergensmeyer  Part Two:  3. The Sword Against the Crescent: Religion and Violence in Muslim Southeast Asia Robert W. Hefner  4. Buddhism, Violence, and the State in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka Juliane Schober  5. The Roots of Religious Violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Sumit Ganguly  6. Religious Conflict and the Globalization of Knowledge in Indonesian History Mark Woodward  7. Religious Violence Beyond Borders: Reframing South Asian Cases Alyssa Ayres  8. The (Psychic) Roots of Religious Violence in South and Southeast Asia Kumar Ramakrishna 9. Debating Strategies for Disrupting Violence: Lessons from South Asia Maya Chadda  10. Violence and the Long Road to Reconciliation in Southern Thailand Joseph Chinyong Liow  11. LĂ©vinas and the Question of Civilizational Amity after September 11 See Seng Tan  Notes on Contributors  About The National Bureau of Asian Research  About The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict Index

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Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon