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Aida Simonia

Religiia i obshchestvo na Vostoke, Спецвыпуск (2015), p. 41-53.

 
The paper deals with the changes in Myanmar political life, particularly after the transfer of power to the nominal civil administration. Local political life is getting through a period of transformation that reflects both growing religiously colored nationalism and the dominant role of Buddhism in of Myanmar’s new civilian government. Domestic policy toward Muslim minority has to cope with the increased communal and sectarian violence. All that creates new social tensions that are further heated by the growth of militant Islamism in external world, the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Keywords: Theravada Buddhism, Muslim diaspora, anti-Muslim sentiments, Buddhist–Muslim tensions, nationalism, changes in confessional legislation, political transformation, Myanmar political life

Volume: 41-53