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      The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics

      Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

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      Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture

      John Clifford Holt

      Helps you understand the religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. This book presents an overview of Lao Buddhism and analyses how shifting political power - from royalty to democracy…

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      Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

      John Clifford Holt

      Illustrates how popular, public ritual performance, far from being static, clearly indexes patterns of social and political change. This rich, innovative volume provides a provocative introduction to the practice of…

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      Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

      John Clifford Holt

      Offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. John…

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      Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear

      John Clifford Holt

      Examines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than…

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      Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear

      John Clifford Holt

      Examines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than…

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      The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics

      Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

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      Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka

      The rise of right-wing groups of Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka in recent years has caused a new wave of religious violence, in this case with Muslims being the primary…

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      Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka

      The rise of right-wing groups of Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka in recent years has caused a new wave of religious violence, in this case with Muslims being the primary…

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      The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture

      John Clifford Holt

      John Holt’s groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that…

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      The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture

      John Clifford Holt

      John Holt’s groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that…

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      The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka

      John Clifford Holt (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Bowdoin College)

      This inderdisciplinary inquiry seeks to uncover how Buddhism was expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia’s oldest continuing Buddhist culture. It focuses on King Kirti Sri…

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      The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka

      John Clifford Holt (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Bowdoin College)

      This inderdisciplinary inquiry seeks to uncover how Buddhism was expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia’s oldest continuing Buddhist culture. It focuses on King Kirti Sri…

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      Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka

      John Clifford Holt (Associate Professor of Religion, Associate Professor of Religion, Bowdoin College)

      Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well…

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      Patterns in Comparative Religion

      Mircea Eliade

      Demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity’s effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; and, how certain beliefs…

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      In Search of Justice in Thailand’s Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women’s Narratives

      Soraya Jamjuree

      The narratives comprising this book were selected among many others first published in two pocketbooks entitled Voices of Hope and Behind the Smile –Preface.

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      In Search of Justice in Thailand’s Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women’s Narratives

      Soraya Jamjuree

      The narratives comprising this book were selected among many others first published in two pocketbooks entitled Voices of Hope and Behind the Smile –Preface.

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      Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia

      Explores how community is defined and how it functions among Theravada Buddhists in South and Southeast Asia.

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      Barry’s Boys

      John F Hinternhoff

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the public…

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