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.
#7591032 in Books 2002-12-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 6.25 x .75l; 1.44 #File Name: 0415297575312 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. interesting but expensiveBy Mr. GelekThis is a well-conceived and interesting book that provides the research to support Snouck Hurgronje's assertion (in "Mekka") that the Jawah -- pilgrims from the Malay world -- *were* forming a new archipelagic identity in the Middle East. Laffan counters Benedict Anderson's claim in "Imagined Communities" that the pre-national religious pilgrimages didn't set folks on new journeys but merely returned them to their old lives with elevated status. He charts the creation of a new identity that was politicized but not nationalist in the conventional sense.Now if only I could afford to own the thing...
