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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      10 September 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511586354
      9780521415552
      9780521026505
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586354
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.516kg, 260 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.408kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Anthropology, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (87)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Anthropology, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (87)
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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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    ‘This monograph should serve as a reference point for future studies of Christianity in non-Western settings.’

    Source: Anthropos

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