Research Catalog

Title

The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective / Nicholas F. Gier.

Author

Gier, Nicholas F., 1944-

Publication

• Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xxvii, 295 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Violence > Religious aspects
• Religion and civil society > Asia
• Social conflict > Religious aspects
• Nationalism > Religious aspects
• Religion and civil society
• Gewalt
• Gewalttätigkeit
• Religion
• Asia
• Asien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-7644

ISBN

• 9780739192221 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739192221 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781498501880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1498501885 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780739192238 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014021842

OCLC

881208637

Author

Gier, Nicholas F., 1944- author.

Title

The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective / Nicholas F. Gier.

Publisher

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7644