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- catalog abstract ""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. R.L. 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'. 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. The author 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3547194.
- catalog coverage "Sri Lanka Religion 20th century.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""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. R.L. 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'. 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. The author 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220).".
- catalog extent "xviii, 231 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521415551".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 87".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka Religion 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka.".
- catalog subject "282/.5493 20".
- catalog subject "BX1646 .S75 1992".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church Sri Lanka History 1965-".
- catalog subject "Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Sri Lanka.".
- catalog subject "Christian shrines Sri Lanka.".
- catalog title "Power and religiosity in a post-colonial setting : Sinhala Catholics in contemporary Sri Lanka / R. L. Stirrat.".
- catalog type "text".