New Trends and Characteristics of Religious Nationalism in South Asia and Southeast Asia: Taking India, Pakistan, and Myanmar as Examples

Multi-nationalities and multi-religions are intertwined, which leads to a very complicated development situation of religious nationalism in South Asia and Southeast Asia. As far as South Asia is concerned, ethnic conflicts caused by the upsurge of religious nationalism have become increasingly frequent in recent years, such as the conflicts between Hindus and Muslims in India, Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka, and the conflicts between religious majorities and religious minorities and secularism in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Similarly, the development trend of religious nationalism in Southeast Asia is complicated. From the perspective of South Asia and Southeast Asia, Hindu nationalism, Islamic nationalism and Buddhist nationalism are the three main religious nationalism. In recent years, with the constant change of the world power structure, the vigorous development of Islamic fundamentalism in the world, the constant adjustment of geopolitics and regional power structure, the development of religious nationalism in various countries has new trends and characteristics. The following will take India, Pakistan and Myanmar as examples to discuss the development trends and characteristics of religious nationalism in South Asia and Southeast Asia.