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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Interfaith relations
This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim
relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and
Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists
and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has
incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world
collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious
pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two
sections. The first section provides historical background to the
three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The
second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters
between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist
sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist
relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments
in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time-paying
particular attention to how state-formations condition
Muslim-Buddhist entanglements-the book shows the processual and
relational aspects of religious identity constructions and
Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.
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