Taking liberties and making liberty: religious bounding and political violence in Sri Lanka
This paper argues that the relationship between religion and violent politics is best understood through a focus on religious practice. The case study of the Tamil Catholic Church within Sri Lanka's civil war is presented against a backdrop of Buddhist monk participation in violent insurgency d...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 309-330 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Catholic church
/ Buddhism
/ Religious practice
/ Violence
/ Politics
/ Boundary
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that the relationship between religion and violent politics is best understood through a focus on religious practice. The case study of the Tamil Catholic Church within Sri Lanka's civil war is presented against a backdrop of Buddhist monk participation in violent insurgency decades earlier. The discrete cases evidence a common preoccupation with management of physical borders and discursive boundaries as actors seek to reproduce themselves and their work as legitimately "religious". Despite relying on remaining "pure" from the dirty political realm, in practice religion is bound to social action and reproduced through the violent circumstances it engages. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2016.1139012 |