Buddhism, politics and the limits of law : the pyrrhic constitutionalism of Sri Lanka / Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago.
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Comparative constitutional law and policy.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; A Note on Translation and Language ; List of abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: Religion, Law and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka.
- Religion and Law in a Constitutional Age The Costs of Constitutional Law ; The Case of Sri Lanka ; Pyrrhic Constitutionalism ; Constitutional Microhistory and the Expanded Archive of Sri Lankan Law ; Outline of Chapters ; Part I The Past Lives of the Buddhism Chapter.
- 2 Managing Religion at the End of Empire Section I ; Constitution-Making in 1940s Ceylon ; Colonial Legacies of Managing Religion ; Senanayake, Jennings and the Origins of the Preventative Paradigm ; The Preventative Paradigm and Section 29(2) of the 1948 Constitution ; Section II.
- Protectionist and Promotional Objections to the 1948 Constitution Origins of the Protectionist Paradigm: The Young Turks and Religion as a Fundamental Right ; Legitimating the Protectionist Paradigm, Part I: Fundamental Rights as Human Rights.
- Legitimating the Protectionist Paradigm, Part II: Fundamental Rights in South Asia Section III ; The Origins of the Promotional Paradigm: Religious Rights as Buddhist Prerogatives ; Legitimating the Promotional Paradigm: Buddhist Privileges as Democratic Device.