Introduction
Backgrounds
Approaches to Religion and Violence
Negotiating Subjects
Ethnographic Disclosures
Chapter Overview
Language Notes
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Histories
Chapter Two: Representation
Chapter Three: Practice
Chapter Four: Militarization
Chapter Five: Identity
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Michael Jerryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
"A superb critical case study...Jerryson s groundbreaking study
significantly advances our understanding of the phenomena and
problem of Thai racism, processes of racialisation of truth, and
the particularistic mundane truth of Buddhist religiosity and its
dark uses."--Journal of Religion and Violence
"[An] important and provocative study...It will have a beneficial
impact on scholarship about the conflict in the south if it
encourages scholars to shift the emphasis in explaining conflict as
due to the tired stereotype of radical Islam to analyse the close
nexus between Thai Buddhism and the state, and the implications
that this nexus has on the ongoing violence in southern Thailand."
--Journal of Southeast Asia Studies
"Michael Jerryson's work is a welcome addition and a significant
contribution to the literature on southern Thailand which has so
far been lacking attention to the Buddhist aspect of the situation
and the conflict... comprehensive." --Journal of Islamic
Studies
"This remarkable and powerful study, based on extensive field
research in a contested region of southern Thailand, shatters the
image of Buddhist nonviolence. Armed Buddhist monks justify their
militant role in defending the faith, and show that the spiritual
and social, personal and political, and warring and peaceful sides
of religious life are intertwined in Buddhism just as they are in
every other religious tradition. This thoughtful, readable book
is
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Buddhism and the ambiguous role that religious violence plays in
global public life."---Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Global
Rebellion:
Religious Challenges to the Secular State
"A welcome corrective to the received wisdom in Thailand, which
demonizes Islam as a violent religion causing conflict in the
country's far South. Building on the work of Mark Jürgensmeyer,
Stanley Tambiah, Duncan McCargo and Brian Victoria, Jerryson
debunks the myth of Buddhism as a moderate, moral spiritual force
operating "above" the political and outside the state...a
significant advance in understandings of Thai racialized identity
and the Buddhist
spiritual dimensions of ultra-nationalism and racism."--New Mandala
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