Citation

Wijayaratne S. J. Relig. Health 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. Sandhira_Wijayaratne@hms.harvard.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Academy of Religion and Mental Health, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10943-019-00965-w

PMID

31848801

Abstract

The Easter 2019 bombings in Sri Lanka signified how religious frictions could result in violence whose mental health impacts linger. Against the backdrop of nation-wide trauma due to a three-decade-long civil war and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the mental health consequences of the bombings in the context of Sri Lanka's history remain unknown, and likely underdiagnosed and undertreated. In this philosophical exploration, a medical student of Sri Lankan descent grapples with these issues by untangling his own connections to the island.

Language: en

Keywords

Islamophobia; Mental health; Religion; South Asia; Violence