Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Holt, John Clifford (編)

作者

Holt, John Clifford (編)

出版日期

2016.11.24

頁次

254

出版者

Oxford University Press

出版者網址

https://global.oup.com/academic

出版地

Oxford, London, UK [牛津, 倫敦, 英國]

資料類型

書籍=Book

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

Edited by John Clifford Holt, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

John Clifford Holt is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Author of more than a dozen books and many articles and chapters focused on the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia, he has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Peradeniya, was selected as University of Chicago Alumnus of the Year, and has received four NEH and three Fulbright fellowships, as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

Contributors:
Philip Friedrich is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Farzana Haniffa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Colombo.

John Clifford Holt (Ph.D., Chicago) is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.

Dennis B. McGilvray is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and President of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies.

M. A. Nuhman, Retired Professor of Tamil, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, is a well known scholar, poet, literary critic, linguist and a creative translator in Tamil.

Benjamin Schonthal is Lecturer in Buddhism / Asian Religions at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Kalinga Tudor Silva holds a BA from the University of Peradeniya and PhD from Monash University, Australia.

Jonathan A. Young is Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

關鍵詞

Buddhist nationalism; Muslim communities; Sri Lanka; Bodu Bala Sena Movement; BBS; Army of Buddhist Power; ritual; symbol; violence

摘要

This book examines the historical contexts and substantive reasons giving rise to Buddhist nationalism and aggressive attacks on Muslim communities in Sri Lanka. While the rise of Buddhist nationalism in general is analyzed and explained, the specific role, methods, and character of the militant Bodu Bala Sena (BBS: “Army of Buddhist Power”) Movement are scrutinized in particular. Whereas the motivations for attacking Muslims may be deep seated economically, elements of religious culture (ritual and symbol) are often seen as catalysts or venues for explosive acts of violence. Chapters address Sinhala/Muslim relations over the past including the impact of colonialism and modernization on both the cultures and the ways in which Muslim identity has been constructed over the past 100 years involving castes, Islamic Tamils, Moors, and Sri Lanka’s “Muslims.” The authors also discuss the involvement of Buddhist monks in the political arena in Sri Lanka and Buddhist Nationalism, in particular that of the BBS’s business or capitalist in orientation and their perceived Muslim manipulation of economic forces. The BBS is further examined regarding its Anti-Muslim campaigns and how it started, is structured, and how it articulates its messages of hatred for Muslims. Confrontations including the violence in Aluthgama and the religiosity of Devanagala are topics as well as the undeniable religious contribution to this violence.

Introduction
By John Clifford Holt
1. Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Muslim Identity in Sri Lanka: One Hundred Years of Conflict and Coexistence
By M. A. Nuhman
2. Rethinking Muslim Identity in Sri Lanka
By Dennis B. McGilvray
3. Refuge in the State: Buddhist Monks and Virtuous Governmentality
By Jonathan A. Young
4. Configurations of Buddhist Nationalism in Modern Sri Lanka
By Benjamin Schonthal
5. Gossip, Rumor and Propaganda in Anti-Muslim Campaigns of the Bodu Bala Sena
By Kalinga Tudor Silva
6. Adjudicating Antiquity: The Politics of Historical Confrontation at Devanagala, Sri Lanka
By Philip Friedrich
7. Stories in the Aftermath of Aluthgama
By Farzana Haniffa
8. A Religious Syntax to Recent Communal Violence in Sri Lanka
By John Clifford Holt
Bibliography
Notes about Contributors

ISBN

9780190624378 (hc); 9780190624385 (pbk); 9780190624415 (eb)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190624378.001.0001

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