Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan; but interfaith conflict also followed colonial incursions in India; Sri Lanka; and Burma. Before that time; there was a general premodern harmony among the resident religions of the latter countries; and only in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries did religiously motivated violence break out. While conflict caused by Hindu fundamentalists has been serious and widespread; a combination of medieval Tibetan Buddhists and modern Sri Lankan; Japanese; and Burmese Buddhists has caused the most violence among the Asian religions. However; the Chinese Taiping Christians have the world record for the number of religious killings by one single sect. A theoretical investigation reveals that specific aspects of the Abrahamic religions—an insistence on the purity of revelation; a deity who intervenes in history; but one who still is primarily transcendent—may be primary causes of religious conflict. Only one factor—a mystical monism not favored in Judaism; Christianity; and Islam—was the basis of a distinctively Japanese Buddhist call for individuals to identify totally with the emperor and to wage war on behalf of a divine ruler. The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective uses a methodological heuristic of premodern; modern; and constructive postmodern forms of thought to analyze causes and offer solutions to religious violence.
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