Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka
"The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka in 2019, just a decade after the the end of the ethnonationalist insurgency led by the Hindu Tamil Tigers, targeted Roman Catholic and Pentecostal churches. Initially attributed to the Islamic State, they were in fact the work of politicized Sinhala Budd...
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| Формат: | Print |
| Язык: | Английский |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2023]
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| В: | Год: 2023 |
| Серии журналов/журналы: | Religion, culture, and public life
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| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Sri Lanka
/ Буддизм (мотив)
/ Христианство (мотив)
/ Межрелигиозность
/ Сравнение религий
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AX Межрелигиозные отношения BL Буддизм CA Христианство KBM Азия |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Christianity and other religions
Buddhism
B Sri Lanka Религия (мотив) 21st century B Buddhism Relations Christianity |
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| Parallel Edition: | Электронный ресурс
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| Итог: | "The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka in 2019, just a decade after the the end of the ethnonationalist insurgency led by the Hindu Tamil Tigers, targeted Roman Catholic and Pentecostal churches. Initially attributed to the Islamic State, they were in fact the work of politicized Sinhala Buddhist revivalists alarmed by the expansionary encroachment of charismatic Christian groups. These populist Buddhists question the social, political, economic, and religious motives and values of newly converted Sri Lankan Christians, claiming that the vulnerable poor are duped by untrustworthy charismatic "peddlers" of the prosperity gospel as part of a socialization process that transforms them into a fraudulent antinational movement. Conversion itself is a disruptor, a quick-fix radical salvational orientation to god's grace, in direct opposition to the Buddhist trajectory of moral self-betterment that must unfold over many suffering-filled cycles of death and rebirth. Sri Lanka has been the site of religious hostilities since the colonial era, but, as Mahadev argues, the Buddhist-Pentecostal rivalry, exacerbated by savvy use of media on both sides and by the fear that the promise of grace is especially potent and vital, has resulted in a plethora of innovations and adaptations in theology, cosmology, ritual, and partisan politics that are generative of new religious forms"-- Introduction: Inter-Religion in Sri Lanka -- A Note on Terms: Defining Evangelical -- 1. Tangles of Perspectivism: Economies of Conversion and Ontologies of Religious Difference -- 2. Charity and Dāna: The Selfish Gift? -- 3. Mediating Miracles -- 4. A Cacophonous Exuberance: Modulating Miracles, Defending Sovereignty -- 5. Samsaric Destinies and the Maverick Dialogics of Buddhist Publicity -- 6. A Spectrum from Sincerity to Skepticism: Ordinary Biographies of Converts, Apostates, and Dual-Belongers -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Примечание: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Объем: | xiii, 315 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-20528-3 978-0-231-20529-0 |
