Cultural Deference, Community Survival Sri Lankan Catholicism and the Perils of Religious Nationalism
Cultural Deference, Community Survival Sri Lankan Catholicism and the Perils of Religious Nationalism
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文化尊重、社区生存斯里兰卡天主教和宗教民族主义的危险
DOI：
10.1163/18748945-bja10042
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Bernardo Enrique
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BROWN;Bernardo Enrique
在斯里兰卡的泰米尔叛乱被军事击败后，受僧伽罗佛教意识形态支持的民族主义部门转向宗教少数群体，寻找国家的新敌人。其中包括穆斯林和福音派基督徒，他们被描述为污染国家传统的外国入侵者。天主教徒没有受到改变宗教信仰和引进外国文化的指责，部分原因是教会领导层明确反对福音派传教活动，并支持僧伽罗民族主义言论。因此，斯里兰卡的天主教团体发现自己处于一种模棱两可的境地：融入国家公民，但作为一个明显的少数群体，他们渴望不像其他宗教少数群体那样被边缘化。
After the military defeat of the Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka, nationalist sectors backed by Sinhala Buddhist ideology turned to religious minorities in search of new enemies of the State. These have included Muslims and Evangelical Christians who are described as foreign intruders that contaminate the traditions of the nation. Catholics have been spared of accusations of proselytism and the introduction of foreign cultures partly due to the Church leadership’s explicit stance against Evangelical missionary activities and its support of Sinhala nationalist discourse. Catholic communities of Sri Lanka thus find themselves in an ambiguous position: incorporated into the national citizenry, yet a visible minority anxious not to become marginalized like other religious minorities.