Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence (Asian Security Studies)

Synopsis

A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and several well-organized terrorist groups, making understanding of the dynamics of religious conflict and violence particularly urgent. By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in the region and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. The dearth of other literature on the intersection of religion, politics and violence in contemporary South and Southeast Asia makes the timing of this book particularly relevant. This book will of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies.

Copyright:

2006

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

208 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781134153053

Related ISBNs:

9780415459532, 9780415397346, 9780203967485

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/09/21

Copyrighted By:

Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and The National Bureau of Asian Research

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sheldon W. Simon

Edited by:

Linell E. Cady