Boundaries, Contestation, and Toleration at Postwar Sri Lankan Multi-Religious
Despite a sometimes violent, post-colonial history of inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflict Sri Lanka continues to have ritual sites such as, most famously, Sri Pada and Kataragama, where people of various religious and ethnic identities mingle. Moreover, though some sites have been the focus of efforts, primarily though not exclusively by the state, to impose narrative and identity homogenization, other sites, invigorated by post war circumstances, such as Our Lady of Madhu Shrine in Mannar, attract ever larger, ethnically, and religiously mixed, crowds.
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