Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World. Edited by Iselin Frydenlund and Michael JerrysonMyanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear. By John Clifford Holt
Iselin Frydenlund and Michael Jerryson’s edited volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on Buddhist-Muslim relations in South and Southeast Asia. The scholarly study of that topic in these parts of Asia is currently growing, but it has nevertheless been understudied. In his foreword,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 769-774 |
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| Summary: | Iselin Frydenlund and Michael Jerryson’s edited volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on Buddhist-Muslim relations in South and Southeast Asia. The scholarly study of that topic in these parts of Asia is currently growing, but it has nevertheless been understudied. In his foreword, Johan Elverskog explains that the narrative of Muslims destroying the Nālanda monastery, killing its monks, and ultimately destroying Buddhism in India has “come to encapsulate and symbolize the entire thirteen-hundred-year history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction” (viii-ix). This narrative is well-known not merely in the West but also in Asia and has shaped stereotypes of Muslims. The fine-grained historical and ethnographical studies the volume provides therefore serve as an antidote to such stereotypes. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab031 |