(Re)producing Buddhist hegemony in Sri Lanka: Advancing the discursive formations of self-Orientalism, religious (im)mobility and 'unethical' conversion

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Buddhist hegemony; evangelical Christianity; Religious conversio; n religious mobility; self-Orientalism; Sri Lanka; Asian Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2425; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3682/viewcontent/ReproducingBuddhistHegemonySriLanka_2017_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores how Buddhist groups in Sri Lanka attempt to suppress conversion to Christianity. Conversion to Christianity can dilute the power and legitimacy of Buddhist groups, which has caused them to promote a discourse of ‘unethical’ conversion. My argument is that such a discourse is self...