Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence

by Linell E. Cady (Editor), Sheldon W. Simon (Editor)

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, making understanding of the dynamics of religious conflict and violence particularly urgent. By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in the region and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. The dearth of other literature on the intersection of religion, politics and violence in contemporary South and Southeast Asia makes the timing of this book particularly relevant.

This book will of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies.

398 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 17, 2006

About the author

Linell E. Cady is Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. She received her B.A. from Newton College (1974) and her M.T.S. (1976) and Th.D. from Harvard University (1981). After teaching as an Assistant Professor at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, she joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981. Her research and teaching interests have focused primarily on the intersections of religion, theology, and the public/private boundary in the United States, and method and theory in the study of religion, with particular attention to the identities of and border between religious studies and theology. Her most extensive treatment of this topic is Religion, Theology, and American Public Life (1993). This topic is also the focus of her co–edited volume Religious Studies, Theology and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain (2002). Her current research focuses on the constructions of religions and the secular, and their bearing upon the place of religion in public life within modern pluralistic societies. She is the co–editor (with Sheldon Simon) of Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia (2006). Her extensive administrative experience includes the Chair of Religious Studies, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel.

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