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In Defense of Dharma
Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
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This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril. Though Buddhism is commonly assumed to be a religion that never allows for war, this study suggests otherwise, thereby bringing Buddhism into the ethical dialogue on religion and war. Without a realistic consideration of just-war thinking in contemporary Sri Lanka, it will remain impossible to understand the power of religion there to create both peace and war.
Subject categories
- Academic > Religion > Indian Religions > Buddhism > History
- Academic > Religion > Indian Religions > Buddhism > Relation to other religious and philosophical systems
- Academic > History > History of Asia > Sri Lanka > Ethnography
- Current Events > Warfare & Terrorism
- Philosophy > Eastern
- Philosophy > Buddhism
- Religion > Buddhism
- Social Science > Anthropology
- History > Military
- History > Asia
ISBNs
0203994809
9780203994801
9780700716814
9781135788568
9781135788575