Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting

Name: Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521026505
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Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Szerző: R. L. Stirrat

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Cambridge University Press

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Over the past few decades a series of Catholic shrines have sprung up in Sri Lanka which draw hundre...

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Szerző

R. L. Stirrat

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

260

EAN

9780521026505

ISBN

0521026504

Enbook ID

02018651

Kiadó

Cambridge University Press

Súly

408

Méretek

151 x 227 x 17

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Over the past few decades a series of Catholic shrines have sprung up in Sri Lanka which draw hundreds of pilgrims. Although best known as centres for the exorcism of the demonically possessed, their miraculous efficacy also extends to helping people find jobs and preferment, and to alleviating suffering. Dr Stirrat, who has worked in Sri Lanka over a long period, is interested both in how people behave at the shrines, and in the historical and social contexts in which the shrines have appeared. He argues that an understanding of their religious importance is intricately connected with power, religious and political. This view challenges the conventional distinction between 'religion' and 'politics', and accordingly, religious suffering is seen as a complex metaphor linking together various social domains and a means through which conflicts over power and authority can be expressed.

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