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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque - A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace (Hardcover)
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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque - A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace (Hardcover)
Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
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The relationship between religion and conflict has been much
debated in recent years, although the commentary is often
prejudiced by entrenched beliefs. Checkpoint, Temple, Church and
Mosque draws on material from a multi-disciplinary research project
in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled
region. It provides a series of new and provocative theoretical
arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society,
and the strengths and weaknesses of religion as a source for public
action. The authors argue that, for people trapped in long and
violent conflict, religion plays a contradictory role, often acting
as a comforting and stabilising force but also, in certain
situations, acting as a source of new conflict. Ongoing conflict
itself has in turn led to changes to religious institutions. This
book will re-calibrate the debate about the role of religious
organisations and leaders in situations of extreme conflict and
will be of great interest to students of anthropology as well as
contemporary religion and peace/conflict studies.
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