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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Alicia Turner\, Associate Professor of Humanities 
 and Religious Studies\, York UniversityAbstract: In August of 2018 the Bur
 mese military escalated a campaign of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim
  minority in Burma. The violence against the Rohingya shocked many around 
 the world because of what they understood to be the inherently tolerant na
 ture of Buddhism. And yet\, Burmese discourse justified violence and broad
 er anti-Muslim sentiment by appealing to the same tolerant nature of Buddh
 ism and amplifying fears Buddhism could be lost by being overrun by less t
 olerant religious others. These two intertwined discourses deserve our att
 ention: Why has the idea of Buddhism as tolerant become so fixed both insi
 de and outside the Buddhist world\, despite so much empirical evidence of 
 Buddhist intolerance?  And how has the concept of Buddhist tolerance parad
 oxically produced greater difference and distance to the point of violence
 ? In this talk I explore how roots of this problem lie in structures colon
 ial liberal secularism\, with its ways of ordering the world and producing
  difference on a scale of civilizational achievement.This talk charts the 
 genealogy of the idea of Burma as a place of particular religious toleranc
 e starting in the 18th century\, and its intersections with the European c
 onstruction of Buddhism as a world religion in the second half of the 19th
  century. The content of what constituted tolerance shifted over the decad
 es\, but the comparators that evidenced exceptional Burmese tolerance did 
 not: there were consistent positive comparisons with Europe that elevated 
 Burma on the colonial civilizational scale and continual negative contrast
 s with Indian (and to a lesser extent Chinese) others\, labeling Hindus an
 d Muslims in particular as backward for their intolerance. By the twentiet
 h century the equation of Burmeseness\, Buddhism and tolerance fused withi
 n nationalist discourse and led to a drive to defend Buddhism against less
  tolerant Indian others. The themes compelling the contemporary violence—t
 he radical difference between Burmese and Indians\, the need to preserve f
 ree Buddhist women from Muslim men and the idea that a tolerant religion c
 ould be overrun by the forces of religious intolerance all originate in th
 ese secular colonial discourses of religious difference.
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LOCATION:163 Student Union (Discovery Room)
SUMMARY:The Violence of Buddhist Tolerance: Escalating Religious Difference
  in Myanmar/Burma—The 2019 Piediscalzi Lecture in Religion
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 lating-religious-difference-myanmarburma%E2%80%94-2019-piediscalzi
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