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A highly readable and immensely important book... One of the most interesting marriages of analyses of religion and society (and, at times, history and politics) to emerge in South Asian studies (and, I suspect, beyond) for many years. -- James Manor, University of Sussex This is beyond doubt one of the most important books on contemporary Buddhism to have appeared during this decade. -- Per Kvaerne, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen) / University of Oslo

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"A collection of brilliant ethnographic studies of religious innovation and change among Sinhala Buddhists."--Martin Southwold, The [London] Times Literary Supplement