| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Comparative constitutional law and policy
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Comparative constitutional law and policy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- Sri Lanka.
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Constitutional law. |
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Sri Lanka. |
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Buddhism and law -- Sri Lanka.
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Buddhism and law. |
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Ecclesiastical law -- Sri Lanka.
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Religious law and legislation -- Sri Lanka.
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Ecclesiastical law. |
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LAW -- Constitutional. |
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Religious law and legislation. |
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LAW -- Public. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schonthal, Benjamin, 1976- Buddhism, politics and the limits of law. New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2016018482 (OCoLC)946987650 |
| ISBN |
9781316826836 (electronic book) |
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131682683X (electronic book) |
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9781316826119 |
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1316826112 |
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9781316585429 |
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1316585425 |
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9781316606414 (paperback) |
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1316606414 |
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1107152232 |
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9781107152236 |
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