The Transformative Power of Food: The "Milk Mothers" in Sri Lankan Buddhism
This article examines the role of food in the religious cosmology of Sri Lankan Buddhists, combining textual and ethnographic research and drawing on original material, including untranslated pamphlets and interviews. Looking at food as an agent rather than an instrument reveals a creative and trans...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2019]
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Material religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 15, Issue: 5, Pages: 529-552 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Buddhism
/ Pattini
/ Food
/ Milk
/ Mother
/ Ritual
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Pattini
B Theravada Buddhism B Sri Lanka B Cosmology B milk mothers B kiriammā B Food |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |