Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka - Couverture souple

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Mahadev, Neena

 
9780231205290: Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka
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ISBN 10 : 0231205295 ISBN 13 : 9780231205290
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion

Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the final stages of civil war, spurred nationalist anxieties, moral panics, and even episodes of violence by Buddhists against Christians suspected of facilitating "unethical" conversions.

Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, Karma and Grace illuminates disputes over religious freedom and pluralism amid the rise of charismatic Christianity in Sri Lanka. Neena Mahadev explores the dueling efforts of Buddhist nationalists and Christian evangelists to reshape Sri Lanka's religious, economic, and political landscapes. She considers theological and political impasses between Buddhism's vast timescales of karma and Christians' promises of the immediacy of their God's salvific grace. While Christian missions spread "the Good News," subsets of Buddhists produced bad press, sting operations, and disparaging media to impede born-again churches from taking root. In gripping detail, Mahadev recounts how modernist and traditionalist Theravāda Buddhists, Pentecostal newcomers, long-established Christian denominations, local deity and spirit cults, and the innovations of mavericks intermingle in a multireligious public sphere. Even amid trenchant conflicts, Karma and Grace demonstrates that social proximity between rivals is also conducive to religious experimentation and the ambiguities of identity that allow Sri Lankans to live with difference.

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À propos de l'auteur

Neena Mahadev is an assistant professor of religious studies at Duke University.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231205295
ISBN 13 
9780231205290
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780231205283: Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka

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ISBN 10 :  0231205287 ISBN 13 :  9780231205283
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023
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