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The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

By: Rohan Bastin

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The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

By: Rohan Bastin

The Sri Lankan ethnic conflict that has occurred largely between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus is marked by a degree of religious tolerance that sees both communities worshiping together. This study describes one important site of such worship, the ancient Hindu temple complex of Munnesvaram. Standing adjacent to one of Sri Lanka's historical western ports, the fortunes of the Munnesvaram temples have waxed and waned through the years of turbulence, violence and social change that have been the country's lot since the advent of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean. Bastin recounts the story of these temples and analyses how the Hindu temple is reproduced as a center of worship amidst conflict and competition.

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Berghahn Books

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1789203678

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9781789203677

To Name Those Lost

A Novel

By: Rohan Wilson

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To Name Those Lost

A Novel

By: Rohan Wilson

A novel of a father and son in search of each other on the Australian frontier of the 1870s: “Brutal, brilliant, beautiful” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). It is the summer of 1874. Launceston, a colonial outpost on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, hovers on the brink of anarchy, teeming with revolutionaries, convicts, drunks, crooked cops, and poor strugglers looking for a break. Outlaw Thomas Toosey races to this dangerous bedlam to find his motherless twelve-year-old son before the city swallows the child whole, but he is pursued by more than just the law. Hindering his progress at every turn is a man to whom he owes a terrible debt: the vengeful Irishman Fitheal Flynn, whose hooded companion hides a grotesque secret . . . Based on real events, this prize-winning novel of vengeance and redemption, set against the sweeping, merciless grandeur of the frontier, “brings to mind the prose of Cormac McCarthy, Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner [and] catapults us into the vicious, impoverished world of a colonial town in Tasmania” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Readers who admired the propulsive plotting, atmospheric sense of place, and fierce family loyalty in Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road should be equally taken with Wilson’s superb novel. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review) Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Award for Best Novel

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Europa Editions

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1609453611

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9781609453619

The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

By: Rohan Bastin

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1789203678

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The Domain of Constant Excess

The Domain of Constant Excess

To Name Those Lost

To Name Those Lost

The Domain of Constant Excess

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