This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a South and South-east Asia regional workshop on 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma', organised by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Sri Lanka, and the Thai Studies Programme of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The tenor for 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities' was set by K. M. de Silva, Executive Director of ICES, in his keynote address. While the workshop would focus attention on policy-orientated issues and adopt a practical approach to ethnic conflict in the Buddhist societies examined, he stressed that religion and its impact on society and politics in these nations would be a central concern.
0. Introduction Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Part I: Theoretical Issues
1. The Logic of Identity Profiles and the Ethic of Communal Violence: A
Buddhist Perspective
2. Of Imagination and the State
3. Minorities in
Buddhist Doctrine Part II: Buddhism, Minorities and Pubtic Poticy
4.
Nationalism and the State in Sri Lanka
5. Minorities in Burmese History
6.
Nationalism and the State in Thailand Part III: Buddhist Institutions and
Minorities
7. Buddhist Resurgence and Christian Privilege in Sri Lanka,c.
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8. Impact of the Dhammacarik Bhikkhus' Programme on the Hill Tribes
of Thailand
9. Sri Lankan Monks on Ethnicity and Nationalism Part IV: Case
Studies of Minorities in Buddhist Polities
10. The Indian Tamil Plantation
Workers in Sri Lanka: Welfare and Integration
11. Religious Minorities in
Burma in the Contemporary Period
12. The Lotus and the Crescent: Clashes of
Religious Symbolisms in Southern Thailand
13. Sri Lanka's Muslim Minority
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