Buddhism, violence, and the state in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 51-69

  Schober, Juliane ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203967485     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. See Tambiah's essay on the "Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia," in Culture, Thought and Social Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985).
2. See Juliane Schober, "Buddhist Just Rule and Burmese National Culture: State Patronage of the Chinese Tooth Relic in Myanmar," History of Religions 36, no. 3 (1997): 218-43.
3. See Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
4. To explore the role of rumors and confl icting narratives about events that led up and occurred during the riots, see Paul R. Brass, Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997);
5. and Vena Das, "Specifi cities: Offi cial Narratives, Rumour, and the Social Production of Hate," Social Identities 4, no. 1 (1998): 109-30.
6. Aung Zaw, "Rangoon Plays the Muslim Card," The Nation, March 28, 1997.
7. See Walpola Rahula, The Heritage of Monks: A Short History of the Bhikkhu in Educational, Cultural, Social and Political Life (New York: Grove Press, 1974);
8. and H.L. Seneviratne, The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1999).
9. See Stanley J. Tambiah, Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992);
10. and Anada Abeysekara, Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002).
11. Ananda Abeysekara, Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference (Columbia:University of South Carolina Press, 2002), 211.
12. See Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion after September 11 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), where he analyses the discourse and structural confi gurations in society to explain the causes of religious conflict.