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

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

  • Date Published: June 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521026505

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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.

    • Although primarily anthropological, a strong potential market among religious studies specialists, particularly those interested in Christianity in Third World countries
    • Simply written, so will be useful to students in first- and second-year courses
    • One of the rare studies of Christian Indians
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    'This monograph should serve as a reference point for future studies of Christianity in non-Western settings.' Anthropos

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    • Date Published: June 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521026505
    • length: 260 pages
    • dimensions: 227 x 151 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.408kg
    • contains: 9 b/w illus. 2 maps 5 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    1. Introduction
    2. The colonial Church
    3. The Church in crisis
    4. The rise of Kudagama
    5. Demonic possession and the battle against evil
    6. Suffering and sacrifice
    7. Holy men and power
    8. Patronage and religion
    9. On the borders
    10. Conclusion
    Notes
    List of references
    Index.

  • Author

    R. L. Stirrat, University of Sussex

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