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

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