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Islamophobia has triggered communal violence and poisoned social relations in several Theravada Buddhist countries in recent years. Exploring the case of Sri Lanka, the present collection offers scholarship at its best: informative and stimulating, engaging and sophisticated. It presents original field observations, hard-hitting facts on Buddhist extremist derivations and comprehensive analyses, as it introduces the reader to the stunning complexity of the lives of Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities. Yet this is not just an insightful and timely collection of fine essays. It promises to be immensely useful as a resource for studying ethno-religious instability and will be required reading for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary Buddhist-Muslim relations. --Jacques P. Leider, cole fran aise d'Extr me-Orient, Yangon

Islamophobia has triggered communal violence and poisoned social relations in several Theravada Buddhist countries in recent years. Exploring the case of Sri Lanka, the present collection offers scholarship at its best: informative and stimulating, engaging and sophisticated. It presents original field observations, hard-hitting facts on Buddhist extremist derivations and comprehensive analyses, as it introduces the reader to the stunning complexity of the lives of Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities. Yet this is not just an insightful and timely collection of fine essays. It promises to be immensely useful as a resource for studying ethno-religious instability and will be required reading for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary Buddhist-Muslim relations. --Jacques P. Leider, Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Yangon

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John Clifford Holt is a Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of more than a dozen books on the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia.

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