Contesting Buddhist Narratives: Democratization, Nationalism, and Communal Violence in Myanmar
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For the past few years, Myanmar’s political transition has been hampered by violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A nation with an ethnically Burman and religiously Buddhist majority, the population also comprises a large minority of Muslims and members of other religious, and includes many different ethnic groups. As such, Myanmar society is complex and innately plural. While the country has struggled with a range of political and socio-economic challenges related to the transition, the violence between religious groups…..

