ISBN:
9780511586354
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 87
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stirrat, R. L. Power and religiosity in a post-colonial setting
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Print version
DDC:
282/.5493
Keywords:
Catholic Church
;
Catholic Church History 1965-
;
Religionspolitik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Südasien
;
Christian shrines Sri Lanka.
;
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Sri Lanka.
;
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
;
Christian shrines
;
Catholic Church ; Sri Lanka ; History ; 1965-
;
Christian shrines ; Sri Lanka
;
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Sri Lanka
;
Sri Lanka ; Religion ; 20th century
;
Sri Lanka Religion, 20th century.
;
Sri Lanka Religion 20th century
;
Sri Lanka
;
Katholische Kirche
;
Wallfahrt
;
Geschichte 1965-1990
Abstract:
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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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511586354
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