Religion, space, and conflict in Sri Lanka : colonial and postcolonial contexts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth June), 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:	Routledge South Asian religion series ; 10.
Subjects:	Sri Lanka > Religion > History. Religion and geography. Buddhism > Sri Lanka > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.