The names of the leader: the political deification of prabhakaran
This essay investigates the deification of Prabhakaran, the leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil insurrectionary group, the LTTE. I describe the centrality of death in the ideological economy of the LTTE, with the leader Prabhakaran as the love-object who consecrated and directed such death. Following Ern...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 513-531 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Prabhakaran, Velupillai 1954-2009
/ Sri Lanka
/ Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
/ Apotheosis
/ Politician
/ History 1970-2022
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
Deification
B Militancy B Sri Lanka B Death B War B Sacred B Martyrdom |
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