The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective /

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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 di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gier, Nicholas F., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Temas:
Violence > Religious aspects.
Religion and civil society > Asia.
Social conflict > Religious aspects.
Nationalism > Religious aspects.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
Religion et société civile > Asie.
Nationalisme > Aspect religieux.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Nationalism > Religious aspects
Religion and civil society
Social conflict > Religious aspects
Violence > Religious aspects
Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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