TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gier,Nicholas F.
TI  - The origins of religious violence: an Asian perspective 
SN  - 9780739192221
AV  - BL65.V55 G54 2014
U1  - 201/.76332095 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and civil society
KW  - Asia
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index; 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
N2  - A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan. The fusion of religious and national identity in high lamas and divine kings has caused just as much violence in Asia as it did in Europe and the Middle East
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