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The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective / Nicholas F. Gier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gier, Nicholas F., 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Religious aspects.
- Violence.
- Religion and civil society--Asia.
- Religion and civil society.
- Social conflict--Religious aspects.
- Social conflict.
- Nationalism--Religious aspects.
- Nationalism.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 295 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780739192238
- 073919223X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984237648
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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