Multi-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

Informationen zum Autor Mark P. Whitaker is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake is a Senior Researcher at the International Center for Ethnic Studies. Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Klappentext This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka. Zusammenfassung This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Three Introductions. Introductory Essay I. Negotiating with innovative multi-religious spaces, new religious pluralism, and geo-religious powers in post-war Sri Lanka. Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran . Introductory Essay II. Spaces of protection, healing and liberation. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. Introductory Essay III. Innovation and multi-religiosity at Sri Lankan interfaces. Mark P. Whitaker. Part Two: Negotiating with Indigenous Spirits and at Buddhist-Hindu Interfaces. 1. Of Meditation, Militarization, and Grease Yakas: Gendering supernatural and transnational dynamics in post-war public relations Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. 2. The Ghost and the Goat - Religious Innovation in the Yaktovil Healing Tradition and Post-War Othering Eva Ambos. 3. Divine Eyes on the Sorrows of Lanka: Post-War Devotion to Pattini-Kannaki Malathi de Alwis. 4. Kuweni & Vijaya Retold: Sri Lanka's Postwar Iconography as an Affirmation of Inter-Community Mixing Neena Mahadev. Part Three: Pilgrimage and multi-religious sites. 5. Kataragama P da Y tra: Pilgrimaging with ethnic "others" in a backdrop of ethnoreligious nationally reconstructed cultural difference as denied resemblances Anton Piyarathne. 6. Religious Innovation in the Pilgrimage Industry: Hindu Bodhisattva Worship and Tamil Buddhistness. Alex McKinley . Part Four: Sri Lanka's New and Old Inter-Religious Movements. 7. Searching for cakti: New gods, Sites and Choices in Postwar Tamil Sri Lanka Mark P. Whitaker and Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran . 8. Emerging Innovative Religiosity and What They Signify Selvy Thiruchandran. 9. Beyond Syncretism: Buddhist-Islamic Interface in the Galebandara Cult Kalinga Tudor Silva. 10. Militancy in Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism H.L Seneviratne. Part Five: Upcountry Religiosity. 11. Temples and Deities on Plantations Sasikumar Balasundaram. 12. Conversions, Fixing Faith, and Material Investments on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations Mythri Jegathesan. Part Six: Islamic and Christian arrangements. 13. Sufis in Sri Lanka: A Fieldwork Story Dennis McGilvray. 14. Beards, cloth bags and sandals: reflections on the Christian Left in Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya. 15. Claiming the Mannar Martyrs: Catholicism and Caste in Northern Sri Lanka Dominic Esler 16. Hyper-religiosity, Ethnoreligious Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: Pathways for Innovative Religious Responses to Peace with Justice Jude Fernando. ...

Autorentext

Mark P. Whitaker is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky.

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake is a Senior Researcher at the International Center for Ethnic Studies.

Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the Open University of Sri Lanka.

Inhalt

Part 1: Three Introductions. Introductory Essay I. Negotiating with innovative multi-religious spaces, new religious pluralism, and geo-religious powers in post-war Sri Lanka. *Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran*. Introductory Essay II. Spaces of protection, healing and liberation. *Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. Introductory Essay III. Innovation and multi-religiosity at Sri Lankan interfaces. ****Mark P. Whitaker. *Part Two: Negotiating with Indigenous Spirits and at Buddhist-Hindu Interfaces. 1. Of Meditation, Militarization, and Grease Yakas: Gendering supernatural and transnational dynamics in post-war public relations Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. 2. The Ghost and the Goat - Religious Innovation in the Yaktovil Healing Tradition and Post-War Othering ***Eva Ambos. 3. Divine Eyes on the Sorrows of Lanka: Post-War Devotion to Pattini-Kannaki Malathi de Alwis. 4. Kuweni & Vijaya Retold: Sri Lanka's Postwar Iconography as an Affirmation of Inter-Community Mixing Neena Mahadev. *Part Three: Pilgrimage and multi-religious sites. 5. Kataragama P da Y tra: Pilgrimaging with ethnic "others" in a backdrop of ethnoreligious nationally reconstructed cultural difference as denied resemblances ***Anton Piyarathne. 6. Religious Innovation in the Pilgrimage Industry: Hindu Bodhisattva Worship and Tamil Buddhistness. Alex McKinley*. Part Four: Sri Lanka's New and Old Inter-Religious Movements. 7. Searching for cakti: New gods, Sites and Choices in Postwar Tamil Sri Lanka Mark P. Whitaker and Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran**. 8. Emerging Innovative Religiosity and What They Signify Selvy Thiruchandran. 9. Beyond Syncretism: Buddhist-Islamic Interface in the Galebandara Cult ***Kalinga Tudor Silva. 10. Militancy in Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism H.L Seneviratne. *Part Five: Upcountry Religiosity. 11. Temples and Deities on Plantations Sasikumar Balasundaram. 12. Conversions, Fixing Faith, and Material Investments on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations ***Mythri Jegathesan. *Part Six: Islamic and Christian arrangements. 13. Sufis in Sri Lanka: A Fieldwork Story Dennis McGilvray. 14. Beards, cloth bags and sandals: reflections on the Christian Left in Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya. 15. Claiming the Mannar Martyrs: Catholicism and Caste in Northern Sri Lanka ***Dominic Esler 16. Hyper-religiosity, Ethnoreligious Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: Pathways for Innovative Religious Responses to Peace with Justice Jude Fernando.*