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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace

Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace

Spencer, Jonathan
Goodhand, Jonathan
Hasbullah, Shahul

Paperback

Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society

AnthropologyCriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0745331211
ISBN13: 9780745331218
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: Dec 20 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque six senior figures in Anthropology, Sociology, Geography and Development Studies set out to answer this question. Based on fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region during the country's civil war (1983-2009), 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. The authors argue that for people trapped in long and violent conflicts, religion ultimately plays a contradictory role, and that its institutions are themselves profoundly affected by war - producing a complex picture in which Catholic priests engage with Buddhist monks and new Muslim leaders, and where Hindu temples and Pentecostal churches offer the promise of healing.

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