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The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.The country comes under the province of Colombo and is made up of 12 dioceses including one archdiocese.
Buddhist Studies Review. 24 (2): 226– 244. doi: 10.1558/bsrv.v24i2.226. Kemper, Steven (2015). Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World. University of Chicago Press. Lehr, Peter (2019). Militant Buddhism: The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand. Springer International Publishing, Palgrave ...
Christianity is a minority religion in Sri Lanka.It was introduced to the island in first century. [2] Traditionally, after Thomas the Apostle's visit in Kerala in AD 52, Christianity is said to have been introduced to Sri Lanka because of its close geographical and commercial ties.
Lynn Alton de Silva (16 June 1919 – 22 May 1982) was a Sri Lankan theologian and Methodist minister.He was the founder and editor of one of the first theological journals on Buddhist-Christian encounter called Dialogue (1961–1981), [1] [2] chief translator for the revision of the Old Testament of the Sinhalese Bible published as New Sinhala Bible (1973–1982), and director of the ...
In modern times, Muslims in Sri Lanka have the Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs Department, which was established in the 1980s to prevent the continual isolation of the Muslim community from the rest of Sri Lanka. Today, about 9.7% of Sri Lankans adhere to Islam; [2] mostly from the Moor and Malay ethnic communities on the island.
Hinduism is one of Sri Lanka's oldest religions, with temples dating back over 2,000 years. [2] As of 2011 [update] , Hindus made up 12.6% of the Sri Lankan population. [ 3 ] They are almost exclusively Tamils , except for small immigrant communities from India and Pakistan (including the Sindhis , Telugus and Malayalis ).
Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as religion and its definition is highly contested.
The Sri Lankan Moors are mostly native speakers of the Tamil language while a few of them speak Sinhala as primary language, and follow Islam as their religion. Sri Lankan Moors comprise 9.30% (2012 Census) of Sri Lanka's population, and constitute the largest ethnic group within the Muslim community in the country. [13]