Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence

by Sheldon W. Simon and Linell E. Cady

Book Overview

A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia.

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and several well-organized terrorist groups,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415397340
• ISBN13: 9780415397346
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"