scholarly journals Religion and State: Revisions Needed in Sri Lankan Constitutional Implications

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
Nishandey Ratnam
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Indian Constitution ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religion And State

The paper compares infl uence of religion in the Constitutional culture of Sri Lanka and India. The secular nature of both constitutions, the historic relationship between the State and religion, and religious rights is analyzed in detail. Sri Lankan Constitution has provisions of giving special recognition to the Buddhist religion while, the Indian Constitution declares itself as a secular state. However, both nations have similar societies with a lesser degree of secular political culture. An entrenched provision of the Sri Lankan Constitution stands against the good principles of constitutionalism, instrumental in transforming the constitutional culture. The benefi ts of the maintenance of public order and the wellbeing of all parts of the society for the nation by, allowing real freedom of religion and maintaining no partiality, secular government is yet to be recognized in the Constitutional making history of Sri Lanka and in India as well.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Yasmine Gooneratne (1994)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Rama ◽  
Gillian Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The State ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Australian Universities

Gillian Dooley writes: Yasmine Gooneratne, literary scholar, novelist and poet, was born in Sri Lanka, educated there and at Cambridge, and moved to Sydney in 1972. She taught at Macquarie University for many years and has published more than 20 books and many essays and articles. Sri Lanka has always been a part of Gooneratne’s literary world. As a scholar she has done extensive and impressive research on the cultural and literary history of Ceylon, and her three novels all approach Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans in different ways. Her most Australian novel is her first, A Change of Skies, published by Pan Macmillan Australia in 1991, which concerns the migration of a Sri Lankan academic and his wife to Sydney. In November 2018 I was lucky enough to be among a group of Australian scholars who visited the historic Viharagala Estate Bungalow in Haputale, in the beautiful south-facing central highlands of Sri Lanka. The bungalow was built in 1876 and is now owned by the Gooneratne family. We held a mini-conference there, and were delighted that Yasmine Gooneratne was present for the occasion and throughout our visit. I had decided I would give a paper on Yasmine’s work and its links with both Australia and with Jane Austen, and in the course of my research I came across this fascinating interview with Dr R.P. Rama of Rajasthan University, Jaipur, published in SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in 1994 (Volume 38, no. 1). The interview was conducted in Sydney in 1994 and discusses the genesis A Change of Skies in some detail, along with a discussion of the state of postcolonial studies in Australian universities in the 1990s.Dr Rama has kindly given permission for us to reprint the interview.R.P. Rama writes: Shortly before my first visit to Australia I had read Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies during a stay at Mussorie in June 1992. The present interaction recorded here, however, took place in Sydney. It was a beautiful winter morning and Yasmine Gooneratne generously shared her reflections with me.

Part 1 Freedom of Religion or Belief, 1.3.9 Communicate with Individuals and Communities on Religious Matters at the National and International Level

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bielefeldt Heiner, Prof ◽  
Ghanea Nazila, Dr ◽  
Wiener Michael, Dr
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Public Order ◽  
International Level ◽  
Right To Communicate ◽  
The Right ◽  
Domestic Level

This chapter focuses on issues concerning the right to communicate on religious matters at the national and international level. Such communications not only encompass transmitting and receiving verbal or written religious messages, but also personal contacts, processions, and pilgrimages. At the domestic level, processions or parades may provoke violent clashes and public order problems, often leading the State authorities to ban or restrict such processions. Meanwhile, at the international level, religious communities and their pilgrimage sites are usually not confined to the territory of only one State, which naturally leads to the need for international communications and pilgrimages. This situation illustrates the overlap of the right to communicate in matters of religion also with the rights to disseminate publications and to teach a religion or belief. Issues of interpretation include the questions whether communications are also covered by this freedom if they are made for proselytizing purposes or if they involve transfrontier travels in order to attend a religious meeting or undertake a pilgrimage.

Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Billimoria
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Church Life ◽  
History Of

This chapter on Sri Lankan Anglicanism looks at the theological basis for contextualization, identifies some Sri Lankan realities, and provides an overview of the history of Christianity in Sri Lanka with a particular emphasis on Anglicanism and its impact. It shows the roots of contextualization in the indigenization movement based on incarnation, and then looks at different aspects of Anglican church life that have been impacted by contextualization such as the church’s ministry and leadership, self-government, architecture and religious art, liturgy, and fundamentally its radical ‘self-theologizing’ with a focus on the role of Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe. In conclusion the chapter argues that a distinct ‘Sri Lankan Anglicanism’ exists and asks whether the Anglican Church of Ceylon has fully embraced this distinct identity or is still captive to a colonial past.

scholarly journals Adaptation, translation and reliability of the Australian ‘Juniors Enjoying Cricket Safely’ injury risk perception questionnaire for Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. e000289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasanna J Gamage ◽  
Lauren V Fortington ◽  
Caroline F Finch
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Back Translation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

ObjectivesCricket is a very popular sport in Sri Lanka. In this setting there has been limited research; specifically, there is little knowledge of cricket injuries. To support future research possibilities, the aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt, translate and test the reliability of an Australian-developed questionnaire for the Sri Lankan context.MethodsThe Australian ‘Juniors Enjoying Cricket Safely’ (JECS-Aus) injury risk perception questionnaire was cross-culturally adapted to suit the Sri Lankan context and subsequently translated into the two main languages (Sinhala and Tamil) based on standard forward-back translation. The translated questionnaires were examined for content validity by two language schoolteachers. The questionnaires were completed twice, 2 weeks apart, by two groups of school cricketers (males) aged 11–15 years (Sinhala (n=24), Tamil (n=30)) to assess reliability. Test–retest scores were evaluated for agreement. Where responses were <100% agreement, Cohen’s kappa (κ) statistics were calculated. Questions with moderate-to-poor test–retest reliability (κ<0.6) were reconsidered for modification.ResultsBoth the Sinhala and Tamil questionnaires had 100% agreement for questions on demographic data, and 88%–100% agreement for questions on participation in cricket and injury history. Of the injury risk perception questions, 72% (Sinhala) and 90% (Tamil) questions showed a substantial (κ=0.61–0.8) and almost perfect (κ=0.81–1.0) test–retest agreement.ConclusionThe adapted and translated JECS-SL questionnaire demonstrated strong reliability. This is the first study to adapt the JECS-Aus questionnaire for use in a different population, providing an outcome measure for assessing injury risk perceptions in Sri Lankan junior cricketers.

Buddhist Law Against the State? Representing Religion, Law, and Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schonthal
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
State Law ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
A Minor

AbstractPublic disputes over the legal regulation of religion are often portrayed as naturally occurring conflicts between competing normative systems: religious law and state law. What, then, explains why some normative frictions become the focus of major controversies, whereas others do not? This article tries to answer this question, while examining a genre of religious law that has not received much attention by scholars of law and religion, Buddhist law in Sri Lanka. Drawing on monastic disciplinary texts, legal archives, and representations of law taken from online and popular media, this article analyzes how and why a minor, routine friction between Buddhist ecclesiastical rules and Sri Lankan statutory regulations—a dispute over whether a monk may wear his robes in prison—came to be portrayed as a grand contest between two incompatible regimes: “Buddhist law” and “state law.”

The political culture of non-western fashion identities1

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Jennifer Craik
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract The topic of non-western (or ethnic, exotic, world or fusion) fashion has been gaining traction as a legitimate field of scholarship in recent years. This rich vein of research and practice requires more attention to developing new approaches to analytic frameworks in which to evaluate the state of fashion in non-western contexts and to discuss more seamlessly the convergence and dialectical appropriation of non-western inspirations in western fashion and western inspirations in forging and negotiating non-western fashion identities. One indication of the inadequacies of current analytic frameworks used to understand non-western fashion is the use of oppositions and polarities such as colonial/postcolonial, exotic/indigenous and local/global. This article argues that non-western fashion can only be adequately unpacked and understood if the embedded politics of the cultures in which non-western emanates are recognized, drawing on the history of fashions in China and references to Chinoiserie in Eurocentric fashion.

SUBORDINATION, SEPARATION, AND AUTONOMY: CHINESE PROTESTANT APPROACHES TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND STATE

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Pan-Chiu Lai
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
The State ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

ABSTRACTIn the history of the religion-state relationship in China, a model of subordination of religion to the state has been dominant for centuries. In recent years, some Chinese Protestant churches have advocated the model of separation of church and state. Through a historical and theological analysis, this study argues that in order to relieve the tensions between Chinese Protestantism and the contemporary Chinese government, a better conceptual alternative is to reconsider the issue in terms of autonomy rather than separation or subordination, and to argue for legally allowing the coexistence of both official and nonofficial churches and grant different degrees of autonomy to each.

Environments of Law: Islam, Buddhism, and the State in Contemporary Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schonthal
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The State ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Supreme Court Case

This article uses an important Sri Lankan Supreme Court case concerning religious sound as a starting point for thinking about the intersections of Islam, law, politics, and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. It argues that Sri Lankan Muslims find themselves in three interlacing legal “environments” at the present moment: in an environment of general laws governing religion, in an environment of special laws and administrative bodies for Muslims, and in a broader constitutional environment that grants special recognition to Buddhism. These environments offer differing opportunities and imperatives for expressing Muslim identity, religious equality, diversity, rights, and freedoms in contemporary Sri Lanka. Through a consideration of these legal environments and the way they affected the case, this article illuminates ongoing questions about the legal and political status of Muslims on the island and provides a snapshot of the legal debates and discourses that have flowed into and fortified recent anti-Muslim sentiments on the island.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN KEBEBASAN BERAGAMA DI INDONESIA (EXTERNAL FREEDOM) DIHUBUNGKAN IJIN PEMBANGUNAN RUMAH IBADAH

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nella Sumika Putri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Is Element

Recently, Indonesia faced issues about freedom of religion, in particular for construction the house of worship. It is part of freedom of worship which is element from freedom of religion and it should protected by State. eventhough State in implementation those right can make some limitation. Joint Decree 2006 is a form of restriction provided by the State to maintain public order. The implementation of freedom of religion is highly depend on the tolerance among religious community, particularly in the scope of forum externum. Cooperation beetwen all parties, i.e State as policy makers and implementers, religious leaders as a role model for the followers and society plays an important role in maintaining inter-religious harmony. Keywords: human rights, freedom of religion, construction the house of worship

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