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The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lankaby H. L. Seneviratne

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Book ID
124414554
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
485 KB
Volume
60
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9118

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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