Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka - Couverture rigide

Stirrat, R. L.

 
9780521415552: Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka
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ISBN 10 : 0521415551 ISBN 13 : 9780521415552
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

'This monograph should serve as a reference point for future studies of Christianity in non-Western settings.' Anthropos

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521415551
ISBN 13 
9780521415552
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Nombre de pages
260
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9780521026505: Power & Religiosity, Post Colonial: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521026504 ISBN 13 :  9780521026505
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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