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

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: oligopoly; religious economy; religious competition; informal economy; evangelical Christianity; Sri Lanka; Asian Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2428; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3685/viewcontent/SriLankaInformalReligiousEconomy_2012_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...