Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Richard E. King, John Hinnells

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Classical approaches to violence in South Asian traditions
1 Telling stories about harm: An overview of early Indian narratives
2 The non-violence of violence: Jain perspectives on warfare, asceticism and worship
3 Buddhist monks, Buddhist kings, Buddhist violence: On the early Buddhist attitudes to violence
4 Crimes against God and Violent Punishment in al-Fatawa al-‘ Alamgiriyya
5 Text as sword: Sikh religious violence taken for wonder
Part 2 Religion and violence in contemporary South Asia
6 Operationalizing Buddhism for political ends in a martial context in Lanka: The case of Simhalatva
7 Religion and violence: The historical context for conflict in Pakistan
8 The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat: The post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence
Part 3 Theory—framing the religion and violence debate
9 A categorical difference: Communal identity in British epistemologies
10 The global fiduciary: Mediating the violence of religion
11 The association of ‘religion’ with violence: Reflections on a modern trope
Index

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