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Hardcover:
9781570034671 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $44.95
Paperback:
9781570037870 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $32.50
Product Description: This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril...read more
Hardcover:
9780700716814 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $200.00
Paperback:
9780700716821 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory.
Miscellaneous:
9780203994801 | Routledge, August 22, 2002, cover price $59.95
Product Description: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lankaâgiven Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophyâare able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780226789491 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $75.00
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9780226789507 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1992, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lankaâgiven Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophyâare able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.
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