Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities - Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: John Clifford Holt, John Clifford (William R. Kenan Holt
• Assisted by: John Clifford Holt (Editor), Holt John Clifford (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9780190624378
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062437-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Sri Lanka, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, Religion - Socialissues, RELIGION / Islam / History, Buddhism, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)