Multi-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Multi-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestations

Whitaker, Mark P.; Rajasingham-Senanayake, Darini; Sanmugeswaran, Pathmanesan

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2021

268

Dura

Inglês

9780367862343

15 a 20 dias

689

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Part 1: Three Introductions. Introductory Essay I. Negotiating with innovative multi-religious spaces, new religious pluralism, and geo-religious powers in post-war Sri Lanka. Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran. Introductory Essay II. Spaces of protection, healing and liberation. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. Introductory Essay III. Innovation and multi-religiosity at Sri Lankan interfaces. Mark P. Whitaker. Part Two: Negotiating with Indigenous Spirits and at Buddhist-Hindu Interfaces. 1. Of Meditation, Militarization, and Grease Yakas: Gendering supernatural and transnational dynamics in post-war public relations Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. 2. The Ghost and the Goat - Religious Innovation in the Yaktovil Healing Tradition and Post-War Othering Eva Ambos. 3. Divine Eyes on the Sorrows of Lanka: Post-War Devotion to Pattini-Kannaki Malathi de Alwis. 4. Kuweni & Vijaya Retold: Sri Lanka's Postwar Iconography as an Affirmation of Inter-Community Mixing Neena Mahadev. Part Three: Pilgrimage and multi-religious sites. 5. Kataragama Pada Yatra: Pilgrimaging with ethnic "others" in a backdrop of ethnoreligious nationally reconstructed cultural difference as denied resemblances Anton Piyarathne. 6. Religious Innovation in the Pilgrimage Industry: Hindu Bodhisattva Worship and Tamil Buddhistness. Alex McKinley. Part Four: Sri Lanka's New and Old Inter-Religious Movements. 7. Searching for cakti: New gods, Sites and Choices in Postwar Tamil Sri Lanka Mark P. Whitaker and Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran. 8. Emerging Innovative Religiosity and What They Signify Selvy Thiruchandran. 9. Beyond Syncretism: Buddhist-Islamic Interface in the Galebandara Cult Kalinga Tudor Silva. 10. Militancy in Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism H.L Seneviratne. Part Five: Upcountry Religiosity. 11. Temples and Deities on Plantations Sasikumar Balasundaram. 12. Conversions, Fixing Faith, and Material Investments on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations Mythri Jegathesan. Part Six: Islamic and Christian arrangements. 13. Sufis in Sri Lanka: A Fieldwork Story Dennis McGilvray. 14. Beards, cloth bags and sandals: reflections on the Christian Left in Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya. 15. Claiming the Mannar Martyrs: Catholicism and Caste in Northern Sri Lanka Dominic Esler 16. Hyper-religiosity, Ethnoreligious Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: Pathways for Innovative Religious Responses to Peace with Justice Jude Fernando.
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new religious pluralism;post-war Sri Lanka;Buddhist-Hindu Interfaces;post-war;supernatural and transnational dynamics;Religious Innovation;Innovative Religiosity;Buddhist-Islamic Interface;Hyper-religiosity;Ethnoreligious Nationalism;Ethnic Violence;Sri Sri Ravi Shankar;Nagore Dargah;Young Men;Tamil Nadu;Shaykh Nazim;Sinhala Buddhist;War Time;Sri Pada;Brahma Kumaris;Hill Country Tamil;Sri Lankan;Brahma Kumaris Movements;Cold War Proxy Wars;God Murugan;Plantation Temples;Sinhalese Buddhists;Religious Identity Politics;Contemporary Religious Movements;Tamil Hindus;Colombo Port City;Hindu Pluralism;Holy Man;Sri Lankan Muslim;Meditation Circles