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9780415397346 0415397340 Although conflict both between and within religious traditions has long been a feature of the political and social environment across Asia, it has assumed greater political significance with recent waves of communal violence and the rise of radical Islam. This multidisciplinary volume analyses the causes and dynamics of religiously inflected violence. Relying primarily upon illustrative case studies from a range of countries in South and Southeast Asia, the chapters are grouped around three main themes: the causes of religiously justified collective violence; the international and transnational settings for religious violence; and strategies for disrupting religious violence. While the book makes clear that religiously inflected violence is a general term that encompasses analytically distinct types which have to be countered or prevented in different ways, the studies also demonstrate the fluidity of the boundary between them. For example, communal violence lends itself to discursive reframing as religious warfare, thereby translating what is essentially a local conflict into global discourses of religious violence. The book also underscores the crucial role of the state in provoking religious violence or failing to intervene and highlights the contentions for political, legal and cultural authority between the secular state and religiously motivated actors. Bringing together scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in South and Southeast Asia and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. This book will be of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies. Book jacket., This is 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., This new book advances comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with particular attention to South and Southeast Asia. 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. Is there, for example, an intrinsic connection between religion and violence, making religion part of the problem not the solution? Is religious terrorism rooted in religion, or is it cloaked by religion? Is religious violence a misnomer, an indication that authentic religion has been hijacked? What difference, if any, does this make for policy interventions? By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, our volume brings much neededattention 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.
9780415397346 0415397340 Although conflict both between and within religious traditions has long been a feature of the political and social environment across Asia, it has assumed greater political significance with recent waves of communal violence and the rise of radical Islam. This multidisciplinary volume analyses the causes and dynamics of religiously inflected violence. Relying primarily upon illustrative case studies from a range of countries in South and Southeast Asia, the chapters are grouped around three main themes: the causes of religiously justified collective violence; the international and transnational settings for religious violence; and strategies for disrupting religious violence. While the book makes clear that religiously inflected violence is a general term that encompasses analytically distinct types which have to be countered or prevented in different ways, the studies also demonstrate the fluidity of the boundary between them. For example, communal violence lends itself to discursive reframing as religious warfare, thereby translating what is essentially a local conflict into global discourses of religious violence. The book also underscores the crucial role of the state in provoking religious violence or failing to intervene and highlights the contentions for political, legal and cultural authority between the secular state and religiously motivated actors. Bringing together scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in South and Southeast Asia and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. This book will be of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies. Book jacket., This is 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., This new book advances comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with particular attention to South and Southeast Asia. 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. Is there, for example, an intrinsic connection between religion and violence, making religion part of the problem not the solution? Is religious terrorism rooted in religion, or is it cloaked by religion? Is religious violence a misnomer, an indication that authentic religion has been hijacked? What difference, if any, does this make for policy interventions? By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, our volume brings much neededattention 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.