Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective

Existing religious economy models maintain that as religious regulation increases, levels of interreligious competition decrease. But new understandings of the market dynamics of religious oligopolies necessitate new understandings of religious competitiveness. A relational model of competitiveness...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-36852018-08-07T04:02:40Z Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective WOODS, Orlando Existing religious economy models maintain that as religious regulation increases, levels of interreligious competition decrease. But new understandings of the market dynamics of religious oligopolies necessitate new understandings of religious competitiveness. A relational model of competitiveness using the case of evangelical Christianity in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka is proposed. In Sri Lanka the informal religious economy is defined by competitiveness among evangelical Christian groups and, although not recognized by the state, is closely regulated. The focus in this article is on the scalar determinations of evangelical competitiveness, patterns of secrecy and subterfuge, the formation of strategic extra-group networks that enable competitiveness, and outcomes of a relational model. Three insights are offered that can be used as a starting point for further work on religious oligopolies, informal economies, and relational understandings of religious competition. 2012-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2428 info:doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01642.x https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3685/viewcontent/SriLankaInformalReligiousEconomy_2012_afv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University oligopoly religious economy religious competition informal economy evangelical Christianity Sri Lanka Asian Studies Religion
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topic oligopoly
religious economy
religious competition
informal economy
evangelical Christianity
Sri Lanka
Asian Studies
Religion
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religious economy
religious competition
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evangelical Christianity
Sri Lanka
Asian Studies
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WOODS, Orlando
Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
description Existing religious economy models maintain that as religious regulation increases, levels of interreligious competition decrease. But new understandings of the market dynamics of religious oligopolies necessitate new understandings of religious competitiveness. A relational model of competitiveness using the case of evangelical Christianity in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka is proposed. In Sri Lanka the informal religious economy is defined by competitiveness among evangelical Christian groups and, although not recognized by the state, is closely regulated. The focus in this article is on the scalar determinations of evangelical competitiveness, patterns of secrecy and subterfuge, the formation of strategic extra-group networks that enable competitiveness, and outcomes of a relational model. Three insights are offered that can be used as a starting point for further work on religious oligopolies, informal economies, and relational understandings of religious competition.
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title Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
title_short Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
title_full Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
title_fullStr Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
title_full_unstemmed Sri Lanka's informal religious economy: Evangelical competitiveness and Buddhist hegemony in perspective
title_sort sri lanka's informal religious economy: evangelical competitiveness and buddhist hegemony in perspective
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2428
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