RT Book
T1 Power and religiosity in a post-colonial setting: Sinhala Catholics in contemporary Sri Lanka
T2 Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
A1 Stirrat, R.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1992
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883376296
AB 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.
OP 231
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX1646
SN 978-0-511-58635-4
K1 Catholic Church
K1 Catholic Church : Sri Lanka : History : 1965-
K1 Religionspolitik
K1 Gesellschaft
K1 Südasien
K1 Christian shrines : Sri Lanka.
K1 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages : Sri Lanka.
K1 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages : Sri Lanka
K1 Christian shrines : Sri Lanka
K1 Catholic Church ; Sri Lanka ; History ; 1965-
K1 Christian shrines ; Sri Lanka
K1 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Sri Lanka
K1 Sri Lanka ; Religion ; 20th century
K1 Sri Lanka : Religion, 20th century.
K1 Sri Lanka : Religion : 20th century
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511586354