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- Offers a comprehensive, comparative discussion of militant Buddhism in the three leading Theravadin countries Sri Lanka, Myanmar/Burma and Thailand
- Explores how a notionally non-violent religion explains and defends the recourse to violence
- Argues that militancy and (defensive) Buddhist violence is not a novel development or even a ‘modern distortion of the true religion’, but played a role ever since the first Buddhist kingdoms were established
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
Authors and Affiliations
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School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Peter Lehr
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Militant Buddhism
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand
Authors: Peter Lehr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03517-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03516-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03517-4Published: 30 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 306
Topics: Politics and Religion, Conflict Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Asian Politics, Buddhism, Secularism