Overview
- Is the first book to cover the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
- Deals with a pragmatic non-Islamist party’s use of religious terms and symbols
- Provides insight into how a religious political Muslim party functions
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andreas Johansson is the current Director of Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University. He holds a PhD in history of religion. In his research he examines how different organizations use religious terms and symbols. He studies a wide range of sources and has conducted fieldwork in Sri Lanka and Japan. Andreas has published his research results in peer review articles and in specialist journals and news outlets, such as openDemocracy and The Conversation. He is one of the editors of the Nordic journal of South Asian studies. He is also the author of the book Yakuza tattoo (Dokument Press, April 2017)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pragmatic Muslim Politics
Book Subtitle: The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
Authors: Andreas Johansson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12789-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12788-6Published: 19 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12789-3Published: 04 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, Cultural Studies, Islam