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| The Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka | ||
| 作者 | Bastin, Rohan |
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| 出版日期 | 2002.06 |
| 頁次 | 256 |
| 出版者 | Berghahn Books, Inc. |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.berghahnbooks.com/index.html |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Info: Rohan Bastin is Senior Lecturer and he of the School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology at James Cook University. |
| 關鍵詞 | 斯里蘭卡佛教=Sri Lankan Buddhism; |
| 摘要 | Bastin has recast his doctoral dissertation for University College London, which explores how religious meaning and potency acquire force in the production and reproduction of everyday worship. He addresses general issues about Hindu temples and their place in south Indian and Sri Lankan society and history, focusing on a predominantly Hindu cluster of five temples near the northwest coastal town of Chilaw from the middle 1980s to the middle 1990s. The Sri Lankan ethnic conflict that has occurred largely between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus is marked by a degree of religious tolerance that sees both communities worshiping together. The study describes one important site of such worship, the ancient Hindu temple complex of Munnesvaram. Standing adjacent to one of Sri Lanka's historical western ports, the fortunes of the Munnesvaram temples have waxed and waned through the years of turbulence, violence and social change that have been the country's lot since the advent of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean. Bastin recounts the story of these temples and analyses how the Hindu temple is reproduced as a center of worship amidst conflict and competition. |
| ISBN | 1571812520 (Trade Cloth) |
| 點閱次數 | 293 |
| 建檔日期 | 2004.02.20 |
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