Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque six senior figures in Anthropology, Sociology, Geography and Development Studies set out to answer this question.
Based on fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka’s most religiously diverse and politically troubled region during the country’s civil war (1983-2009), it provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.
The authors argue that for people trapped in long and violent conflicts, religion ultimately plays a contradictory role, and that its institutions are themselves profoundly affected by war – producing a complex picture in which Catholic priests engage with Buddhist monks and new Muslim leaders, and where Hindu temples and Pentecostal churches offer the promise of healing.
Based on fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka’s most religiously diverse and politically troubled region during the country’s civil war (1983-2009), it provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.
The authors argue that for people trapped in long and violent conflicts, religion ultimately plays a contradictory role, and that its institutions are themselves profoundly affected by war – producing a complex picture in which Catholic priests engage with Buddhist monks and new Muslim leaders, and where Hindu temples and Pentecostal churches offer the promise of healing.
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表中的内容
List of IllustrationsSeries Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary and Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. The East as a Complex Religious Field
3. Land and Water, War and not War
4. Making Sacred Space
5. Conflict in the Plural
6. Boundary Politics, Religion and Peace-Building
7. Afterword: War’s End
8. Reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Index
关于作者
Kalinga Tudor Silva is Professor of Sociology at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is the co-author of Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque (Pluto, 2014).购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 224 ● ISBN 9781783712151 ● 文件大小 2.2 MB ● 出版者 Pluto Press ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2014 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3492084 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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