Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities
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Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities by John Clifford Holt
The rise of right-wing groups of Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka in recent years has caused a new wave of religious violence, in this case with Muslims being the primary targets.
"Islamophobia has triggered communal violence and poisoned social relations in several Theravada Buddhist countries in recent yearsExploring the case of Sri Lanka, the present collection offers scholarship at its best: informative and stimulating, engaging and sophisticated. It presents original field observations, hard-hitting facts on Buddhist extremist derivations and comprehensive analyses, as it introduces the reader to the stunning complexity of the lives of Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities. Yet this is not just an insightful and timely collection of fine essays. It promises to be immensely useful as a resource for studying ethno-religious instability and will be required reading for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary Buddhist-Muslim relations." --Jacques P. Leider, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Yangon
John Clifford Holt is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Author of more than a dozen books and many articles and chapters focused on the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia, he has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Peradeniya, was selected as University of Chicago Alumnus of the Year, and has received four NEH and three Fulbright fellowships, as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190624385 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190624388 |
| Title | Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities |
| Author | John Clifford Holt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2016-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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