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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: From Mongols to Mughals: Hindu-Muslim Relations in Medieval India
Chapter 2: Hindu Nationalism, Modernism, and Reverse Orientalism
Chapter 3: Premodern Harmony, Sri Lankan Buddhist Nationalism, and Violence
Chapter 4: Burmese Nationalisms and Religious Violence against Muslims
Chapter 5: Buddhism in Bhutan: From Violent Lamas to Peaceful Kings
Chapter 6: "Compassionate" Violence in Tibet: 1, 000 Years of War Magic
Chapter 7: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity
Chapter 8: Sikhism, the Seduction of Modernism, and the Question of Violence
Chapter 9: Religious Nationalism, Violence, and Taiping Christianity
Chapter 10: Hypotheses on the Reasons for Religious Violence
Chapter 11: The Gospel of Weak Belief, Overcoming the Other, and Constructive Postmodernism
