Nicholas F. Gier

The Origins of Religious Violence

An Asian Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan. The fusion of religious and national identity in high lamas and divine kings has caused just as much violence in Asia as it did in Europe and the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780739192221
• ISBN-10: 0739192221
• Artikelnr.: 41052515

Autorenporträt

Nicholas F. Gier is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: From Mongols to Mughals: Hindu-Muslim Relations in Medieval India Chapter 2: Hindu Nationalism
Modernism
and Reverse Orientalism Chapter 3: Premodern Harmony
Sri Lankan Buddhist Nationalism
and Violence Chapter 4: Burmese Nationalisms and Religious Violence against Muslims Chapter 5: Buddhism in Bhutan: From Violent Lamas to Peaceful Kings Chapter 6: "Compassionate" Violence in Tibet: 1
000 Years of War Magic Chapter 7: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity Chapter 8: Sikhism
the Seduction of Modernism
and the Question of Violence Chapter 9: Religious Nationalism
Violence
and Taiping Christianity Chapter 10: Hypotheses on the Reasons for Religious Violence Chapter 11: The Gospel of Weak Belief
Overcoming the Other
and Constructive Postmodernism