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Militant Buddhism : the rise of religious violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand by Peter Lehr is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Militant Buddhism : the rise of religious violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand about?
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 ‘wo
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Peter Lehr
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030035167
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Political Science, Buddhism, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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