Introduction / John Clifford Holt -- Sinhala Buddhist nationalism and Muslim identity in Sri Lanka: one hundred years of conflict and coexistence / M.A. Nuhman -- Rethinking Muslim identity in Sri Lanka / Dennis B. McGilvray -- Refuge in the state: Buddhist monks and virtuous governmentality / Jonathan A. Young -- Configurations of Buddhist nationalism in modern Sri Lanka / Benjamin Schonthal -- Gossip, rumor, and propaganda in anti-Muslim campaigns of the Bodu Bala Sena / Kalinga Tudor Silva -- Adjudicating antiquity: the politics of historical confrontation at Devanagala, Sri Lanka / Philip Friedrich -- Stories in the aftermath of Aluthgama / Farzana Haniffa -- A religious syntax to recent communal violence in Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt