Posted: September 13th, 2017

What the key factors that facilitated the absorption of Islam and Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia during the ?traditional‘ period ? In your answer, compare and contrast the social, political roles of these faiths in region

What the key factors that facilitated the absorption of Islam and Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia during the ?traditional‘ period ? In your answer, compare and contrast the social, political roles of these faiths in region

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Please reference from the following:
Anthony Reid, ?A Religious Revolution‘, in Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, pp. 136
-172.

Anthony Reid, ?Islamization and Christianization in Southeast Asia: the Critical
Phase, 1550-1660‘, in Anthony Reid (ed.), Southeast Asia in the Early
Modern Era: Trade, Power and Belief
, Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1993, pp. 151-180

Robert C. Lester,
Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia
, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973, ch. 2, pp. 25-46