Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World
This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has
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Edited by Iselin Frydenlund Michael Jerryson
Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World
Iselin Frydenlund · Michael Jerryson Editors
Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World
Editors Iselin Frydenlund MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society Oslo, Norway
Michael Jerryson Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH, USA
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Foreword
In a recent issue of The New York Times Style Magazine, there was an article about Myanmar. But rather than simply using the country as a backdrop to showcase haute couture, the thrust of the article—“What Happened Here”—was actually about the ethics of visiting the country formerly known as Burma.1 In short, the author grappled with the historical and moral issues of visiting a country that had recently committed genocide. In addressing these questions, the author did not mince words about what had happened: Bamar and Rakhine Buddhists had burned, killed, raped and ethnically cleansed nearly a million Rohingya Muslims. In August 2017, Myanmar initiated a round of ethnic slaughter, mass gang rape and the burning and razing of hundreds of villages. Despite the installation of a nominally democratic government headed by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi the previous year, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Musli
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