Kinglsey M de Silva

Ethnic Conflict In Buddhist Societies

Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an outcome of South and South-east Asia regional workshop on 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma'. It mainly focuses on policy issues. The key theme of the book is the role of religions play in both the exacerbation and amelioration of ethnic conflict.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367153090
• ISBN-10: 0367153092
• Artikelnr.: 60020434

Inhaltsangabe

0. Introduction - Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Part I: Theoretical Issues 1.
The Logic of Identity Profiles and the Ethic of Communal Violence: A
Buddhist Perspective 2. Of Imagination and the State 3. Minorities in
Buddhist Doctrine Part II: Buddhism, Minorities and Pubtic Poticy 4.
Nationalism and the State in Sri Lanka 5. Minorities in Burmese History 6.
Nationalism and the State in Thailand Part III: Buddhist Institutions and
Minorities 7. Buddhist Resurgence and Christian Privilege in Sri Lanka,c.
1940-1965 8. Impact of the Dhammacarik Bhikkhus' Programme on the Hill
Tribes of Thailand 9. Sri Lankan Monks on Ethnicity and Nationalism Part
IV: Case Studies of Minorities in Buddhist Polities 10. The Indian Tamil
Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka: Welfare and Integration 11. Religious
Minorities in Burma in the Contemporary Period 12. The Lotus and the
Crescent: Clashes of Religious Symbolisms in Southern Thailand 13. Sri
Lanka's Muslim Minority