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Article: Buddhism and the Legitimacy of Violence
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- Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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- May 1, 2008
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Buddhism and the Legitimacy of Violence MAHINDA DEEGALLE (ed.), Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism). London and New York: Routledge, 2006. XV, 277 pages, £ 75.00. ISBN 0-415-35920-1.
Religious conflicts that seem to spread across the world with ever increasing speed have given rise to the seemingly strange question of how religions can help to prevent or to resolve these conflicts. This constitutes an obvious paradox: on the one hand, religion is thought to be responsible for causing or at least triggering conflicts, on the other, it is normatively called upon to mediate and deescalate precisely these conflicts. Religiously ...