Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting Hardback: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka: 87 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 87) - Tapa dura

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9780521415552: Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting Hardback: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka: 87 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 87)
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ISBN 10: 0521415551 ISBN 13: 9780521415552
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Sinopsis

This study of religious change and cultural fragmentation in contemporary Sri Lanka focuses on a series of new Catholic shrines that attract hundreds of pilgrims. Their fame is based, among other things, on their efficacy as centres for demonic exorcism, alleviating suffering, and helping people to find jobs.

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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

De la contraportada

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.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
1992
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521415551
ISBN 13 
9780521415552
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
260
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780521026505: Power & Religiosity, Post Colonial: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka: 87 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 87)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0521026504 ISBN 13:  9780521026505
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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