Religion space and conflict in Sri Lanka : colonial and postcolonial contexts The British colonial period The spatial component of the Sri Lankan Buddhist imaginary 1590s to 1815 The Evangelical Protestant missionary spatial imaginary The spatial impact of missionary schools The spatial impact of church building British and Buddhist imaginaries: the sacred cities the Aryan debate and the Tamil other Ancient cities and narratives of power The postcolonial period Sinhala Buddhist imaginaries post 1948 and during the ethnic war Ethnic conflict internal war and the spatial 1912 2009 Spatial change and competition after the ending of armed conflict Concluding thoughts