Mark Juergensmeyer: Buddhist Warfare

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Buddhism has played a significant role in the current global rise in religious nationalism and violence, but the violent aspects of Buddhist tradition have been neglected in the outpouring of academic analyses and case studies of this disturbing trend. This book offers eight essays examining the dark side of a tradition often regarded as the religion of peace. The authors note the conflict between the Buddhist norms of non-violence and the prohibition of the killing of sentient beings and acts of state violence supported by the Buddhist community (sangha), acts of civil violence in which monks participate, and Buddhist intersectarian violence. They consider contemporary and historical cases of Buddhist warfare from a wide range of traditions - Tibetan, Mongolian, Japanese, Chinese, Sri Lankan, and Thai - critically examining both Buddhist textual sources justifying violence and Buddhist actors currently engaged in violence. They draw not only on archival material but interviews with those living and involved in war zones around the world. The book enriches our understanding both of the complexities of the Buddhist tradition and of the violence that is found in virtually all of the world's religious traditions.

Über den Autor

Michael Jerryson: Director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and Professor of Global and International Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara; MarK Juergensmeyer: Post-doctoral Fellow, UCSB

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Michael Jerryson

1: Paul DemiÃ(c)ville: Buddhism and War

2: Stephen Jenkins: Making Merit through Warfare

3: Derek F. Mahler: Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse of Religious Violence

4: Vesna Wallace: Corporal Punishment during Mongolia's Theocratic Period

5: Brian Victoria: A Buddhological Critique of 'Soldier Zen' in Wartime Japan

6: Xue Yu: Buddhist Monks in China during the Korean War

7: Daniel Kent: Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army

8: Michael Jerryson: Militarizing Buddhism: Violence in Southern Thailand

Concluding Remarks: Afterthoughts

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Religion:	Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195394849
ISBN-10:	0195394844
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Juergensmeyer, Mark Jerryson (Eds )., Michael
Redaktion:	Jerryson, Michael K.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Juergensmeyer (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2010
Gewicht:	0,415 kg