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  title info:
    title: Militant Buddhism
    sub title: The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand
  name:
    name part: Lehr, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 306 p. online resource.
  abstract: Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it. We are well aware of Christian fundamentalism, militant Judaism and Islamist Salafism-Jihadism. Extremist and violent Buddhism however features only rarely in book-length studies on religion and political violence. Somehow, the very idea of Buddhist monks as the archetypical 'world renouncers' exhorting frenzied mobs to commit acts of violence against perceived 'enemies of the religion' seems to be outright ludicrous. Recent events in Myanmar/Burma, but also in Thailand and Sri Lanka, however indicate that a militant strand of Theravada Buddhism is on the rise. How can this rise be explained, and what role do monks play in that regard? These are the two broad questions that this book explores. Peter Lehr is Lecturer in Terrorism Studies at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St. Andrews, UK. An area specialist on South and Southeast Asia, Dr Lehr has published on a wide range of topics, including religion and (political) violence.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction: Between Dhamma-Ghosa and Bheri-Ghosa -- 2 The Sound of War Drums: Political Theology and the Return of Religion -- 3 The Age of Suffering: Buddhist Discourses on Non-Violence in Theory and Practice -- 4 Monks in the Age of Suffering: World Renouncers and World Conquerors -- 5 Sri Lanka: "This Is the Island of Us Sinhalese People" -- 6 Burma: "You Cannot Sleep Next to a Mad Dog" -- 7 Thailand: "It Is Time to Arm Thai Buddhists" -- 8 Comparative Analysis: "Buddhism Is Not a Suicidal Utopianism" -- 9 Outlook: How to Deal with War Monks?.
  note: by Peter Lehr.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  subject:
    topic: Peace
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
  subject:
    topic: Political violence
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Buddhism
  subject:
    topic: Secularism
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Religion
  subject:
    topic: Conflict Studies
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism and Political Violence
  subject:
    topic: Asian Politics
  subject:
    topic: Buddhism
  subject:
    topic: Secularism
  classification: BL65.P7
  classification: 322.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030035174
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03517-4
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    record creation date: 181230
    record change date: 20191023222505.0
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