Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque : a collaborative ethnography of war and peace / Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah, Bart Klem, Benedikt Korf and Kalinga Tudor Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Jonathan, 1954- author.

Goodhand, Jonathan, author.

Hasbullah, S. H., author.

Klem, Bart, author.

Korf, Benedikt, author.

Silva, Kalinga Tudor, 1949- author.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Religious aspects.

War.

Peace--Religious aspects.

Peace.

Ethnic conflict--Religious aspects.

Ethnic conflict.

Ethnology--Sri Lanka.

Ethnology.

Sri Lanka.

Physical Description:

xiii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2015.

Summary:

Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war. It provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.--Provided by publisher

Contents:

The East as a complex religious field

Land and water, war and not war

Making sacred space

Conflict in the plural

Boundary politics, religion and peace-building

Afterword : War's end

Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.

ISBN:

9780745331225

074533122X

9780745331218

0745331211

OCLC:

891125906