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Religion, space, and conflict in Sri Lanka : colonial and postcolonial contexts
Title
Religion, space, and conflict in Sri Lanka : colonial and postcolonial contexts / Elizabeth J. Harris.
ISBN
9781138302013
1138302015
9780203732045
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Physical Description
xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 18, 2018
Series
Routledge South Asian religion series ; 10
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The British colonial period
The spatial component of the Sri Lankan Buddhist imaginary 1590s to 1815
The Evangelical Protestant missionary spatial imaginary
The spatial impact of missionary schools
The spatial impact of church building
British and Buddhist imaginaries: the sacred cities, the Aryan debate and the Tamil other
Ancient cities and narratives of power
The postcolonial period
Sinhala Buddhist imaginaries post-1948 and during the ethnic war
Ethnic conflict, internal war, and the spatial 1912-2009
Spatial change and competition after the ending of armed conflict
Concluding thoughts.
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