ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the resurgence of devotion to the goddess Pattini-Kannaki in post-war/post-insurrection Sri Lanka. It focuses on issues of justice, retribution, sorrow, and suffering that are evoked through various spatial and corporeal “re-orientations” towards the goddess, and reflects on whether such embodied practices enable one to “re-inhabit the world” in the face of continuously deferred loss and devastation.
