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Author:
Gier, Nicholas F., 1944- author.
Title:
The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective / Nicholas F. Gier.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xxvii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Violence--Religious aspects.
Religion and civil society--Asia.
Social conflict--Religious aspects.
Nationalism--Religious aspects.
Nationalism--Religious aspects.
Religion and civil society.
Social conflict--Religious aspects.
Violence--Religious aspects.
Asia.
Gewalt.
Gewalttätigkeit.
Religion.
Asien.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From Mongols to mughals: Hindu-Muslim relations in Medieval India -- Hindu nationalism, modernism, and reverse Orientalism -- Premodern harmony, Sri Lankan Buddhist nationalism, and violence -- Burmese nationalisms and religious violence against Muslims -- Buddhism in Bhutan: from violent lamas to peaceful kings -- "Compassionate" violence in Tibet: 1,000 years of war magic -- Buddhism and Japanese nationalism: a sad chronicle of complicity -- Sikhism, the seduction of modernism, and the question of violence -- Religious nationalism, violence, and Taiping Christianity -- Hypotheses on the reasons for religious violence -- The gospel of weak belief, overcoming the other, and constructive postmodernism.
ISBN:
1498501885 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781498501880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739192221 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739192221 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)881208637
LCCN:
2014021842
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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