Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting

Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka

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Hardcover | 9 November 1992

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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. Dr Stirrat treats the development of these shrines, the discourses used, and the goals of the devotees as commentaries on changing power relations as well as attempts by the faithful to gain access to divine power.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
The colonial Church
The Church in crisis
The rise of Kudagama
Demonic possession and the battle against evil
Suffering and sacrifice
Holy men and power
Patronage and religion
On the borders
Conclusion
Notes
List of references
Index
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Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting

Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka

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