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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: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London [UK] : Pluto Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783712144
  • 1783712147
  • 074533122X
  • 9780745331225
  • 9780745331218
  • 0745331211
  • 9781783712168
  • 1783712163
  • 9781783712151
  • 1783712155
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque.DDC classification:
  • 303.6095493 23
LOC classification:
  • HN670.8.Z9 S627 2015eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- 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 and index.

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Introduction -- 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.

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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