Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque : a collaborative ethnography of war and peace / Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah, Bart Klem, Benedikt Korf and Kalinga Tudor Silva.

By:

Spencer, Jonathan, 1954- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyDescription: xiii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780745331218

Subject(s): DDC classification:

303.6095493 SPE

LOC classification:

BL65.W2 S67 2015

Contents:

The East as a complex religious field -- Land and water, war and not war -- Making sacred space -- Conflict in the plural -- Boundary politics, religion and peace-building -- Afterword : War's end -- Reflections.

Summary: Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war. It provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.--Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.

Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war. It provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.--Provided by publisher

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