Origins of Religious Violence - An Asian Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas F. Gier is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Idaho. Klappentext 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 did in Europe and the Middle East. Zusammenfassung 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 did in Europe and the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: From Mongols to Mughals: Hindu-Muslim Relations in Medieval India Chapter 2: Hindu Nationalism, Modernism, and Reverse Orientalism Chapter 3: Premodern Harmony, Sri Lankan Buddhist Nationalism, and ViolenceChapter 4: Burmese Nationalisms and Religious Violence against MuslimsChapter 5: Buddhism in Bhutan: From Violent Lamas to Peaceful KingsChapter 6: "Compassionate" Violence in Tibet: 1,000 Years of War MagicChapter 7: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of ComplicityChapter 8: Sikhism, the Seduction of Modernism, and the Question of Violence Chapter 9: Religious Nationalism, Violence, and Taiping ChristianityChapter 10: Hypotheses on the Reasons for Religious Violence Chapter 11: The Gospel of Weak Belief, Overcoming the Other, and Constructive Postmodernism

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas F. Gier, Gier Nicholas F 1944, Gier Nicholas F.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781498501880
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0188-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Asia, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Violence and abuse in society, Other non-Christian religions, Other religions and spiritual beliefs