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The role of the Sri-Lankan Christian churches in post-war reconciliation and peace building

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dc.contributor.author PW Rohan Fernando en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-12-22T05:16:07Z
dc.date.available 2014-12-22T05:16:07Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Annual Research Symposium,Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; 2014 : 19p en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4826
dc.description.abstract Christianity in Sri-Lanka was firmly established with the invasion of three imperial powers; the Portuguese (1505), the Dutch (1638) and the British (1815) who introduced Catholicism, Calvinism and Anglicanism respectively. The majority of Sinhala Buddhists still feel the impact of nearly five hundred years of Western mercantile imperial colonization promoted with the patronage of Christian missionaries. The scholarly opinion that the Sri-Lankan ethnic conflict is rooted in Western colonization also draws the suspicion among the Sinhala Buddhists towards Christianity. Also the fact that both the Sinhalese and the Tamils belong to Christian churches has become a double edged sword in post war reconciliation and peace building. en_US
dc.publisher Book of Abstracts, Annual Research Symposium 2014 en_US
dc.title The role of the Sri-Lankan Christian churches in post-war reconciliation and peace building
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.department Western Classical & Christian Culture en_US


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