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Militant Buddhism - The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Militant Buddhism - The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book
takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in
Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of
'why' and 'how' around it. We are well aware of Christian
fundamentalism, militant Judaism and Islamist Salafism-Jihadism.
Extremist and violent Buddhism however features only rarely in
book-length studies on religion and political violence. Somehow,
the very idea of Buddhist monks as the archetypical 'world
renouncers' exhorting frenzied mobs to commit acts of violence
against perceived 'enemies of the religion' seems to be outright
ludicrous. Recent events in Myanmar/Burma, but also in Thailand and
Sri Lanka, however indicate that a militant strand of Theravada
Buddhism is on the rise. How can this rise be explained, and what
role do monks play in that regard? These are the two broad
questions that this book explores.
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