Responses to H. L. Seneviratne's continuity of civil religion in Sri Lanka

H. L. Seneviratne. The Work of Kings: Th

H. L. Seneviratne. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xvi+358 pp., $49 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 74865 0, $22 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 74866 9.

✍ Knut A Jacobsen 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 44 KB

This book is a critical study of Buddhism as a religio-nationalist ideology. H. L. Seneviratne, an anthropologist from the University of Virginia, using the historical-sociological method associated with Max Weber, analyses the birth, development and impact of the ideology of 'Sinhala Only' within t