Religion and violence in South Asia : theory and practice /
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London, UK :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Classical approaches to violence in south Asian traditions. Telling stories about harm : an overview of early Indian narratives / Laurie L. Patton
- The non-violence of violence : Jain perspectives on warfare, asceticism and worship / Paul Dundas
- Buddhist monks, Buddhist kings, Buddhist violence : on the early Buddhist attitudes to violence / Rupert Gethin
- Crimes against God and violent punishment in al-Fatāwā al-ʿĀlamgīriyya / Robert Gleave
- Text as sword : Sikh religious violence taken as wonder / Balbinder Singh Bhogal
- pt. 2. Religion and violence in contemporary South Asia. Operationalizing Buddhism for political ends in a martial context in Lanka : the case of Siṃhalatva / Peter Schalk
- Religion and violence : the historical context for conflict in Pakistan / Ian Talbot
- The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat : the post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence / Christophe Jaffrelot
- pt. 3. Theory : framing the 'religion and violence' debate. A categorical difference : communal identity in British epistemologies / Peter Gottschalk
- The global fiduciary : mediating the violence of 'religion' / Arvind Mandair
- The association of 'religion' with violence : reflections on a modern trope / Richard King.