Multi-Religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestations
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I: Three introductions -- Essay 1: Negotiating with innovative multi-religious spaces, new religious pluralism, and geo-religious...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge South Asian Religion Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Religious pluralism
/ Religion
/ Space
/ Interreligiosity
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| Further subjects: | B
Sri Lanka-Religion
B Electronic books B Sri Lanka Religion |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780367862343 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I: Three introductions -- Essay 1: Negotiating with innovative multi-religious spaces, new religious pluralism, and geo-religious powers in post-war Sri Lanka -- Essay 2: Spaces of protection, healing, and liberation: Religious polyphony and colonial constructions of the violence of "others" -- Essay 3: Innovation and multi-religiosity at Sri Lankan interfaces -- PART II: Buddhist and Hindu negotiations with indigenous spirits -- 1. Of meditation, militarization and Grease Yakas: Gendering supernatural and transnational dynamics in post-war public religion -- 2. The ghost and the goat: Religious innovation in the yaktovil healing tradition and post-war othering -- 3. Divine eyes on the sorrows of Lanka: Post-war devotion to Pattini-Kannaki -- 4. Vijaya and Kuweni retold: Sri Lanka's post-war iconography as an affirmation of inter-community mixing -- PART III: Pilgrimage and multi-religious sites -- 5. Kataragama pa-da ya-tra: Pilgrimaging with ethnic "others" -- 6. Religious innovation in the pilgrimage industry: Hindu bodhisattva worship and Tamil Buddhistness -- PART IV: Sri Lanka's new and old inter-religious movements -- 7. Searching for cakti: New choices in post-war Tamil Sri Lanka -- 8. Emerging innovative religiosities and what they signify -- 9. Beyond syncretism: Buddhist-Islamic interface in the Galebandara cult -- 10. Militancy in Sinhala Buddhist nationalism -- PART V: Upcountry religiosity -- 11. Temples and deities on plantations -- 12. Conversions, fixing faith, and material investments on Sri Lanka's tea plantations -- PART VI: Islamic and Christian arrangements -- 13. Sufis in Sri Lanka: A fieldwork story. |
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| ISBN: | 1000455378 |