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Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque : a collaborative ethnography of war and peace / Jonathan Spencer [and five others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Jonathan, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture, and society.
- Anthropology, Culture and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Religious aspects.
- War.
- Peace--Religious aspects.
- Peace.
- Peace--Social aspects.
- War and society.
- Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Pluto Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 17, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781783712151
- 1783712155
- 9781783712144
- 1783712147
- OCLC:
- 923336104
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