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 Order Description 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