Sri Pāda : diversity and exclusion in a sacred site in Sri Lanka
The thesis is an ethnohistorical study of one major pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka, known as Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak), where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims annually visit to worship the sacred footprint where is looted in the mountain top temple. This sacred footprint has different sacred connotation...
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University of Edinburgh
2005
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.649259 |