Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State

Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9781350086579
ISBN-13 : 1350086576
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Book Synopsis Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State by : Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Download or read book Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State written by Joanne Punzo Waghorne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality. Joanne Punzo Waghorne highlights how the formal religious spaces-temples, churches, and mosques-have been confined to allotted sites on the map of Singapore, whereas various “spiritual” organizations, particularly of Hindu origins and headed by a guru, still continue to operate as “societies” classified by the government with other “clubs.” These unconventional religiosities are not confined but ironically make their own places, meeting in ostensive secular venues: high-rise flats, malls, businesses, and community centers, thus existing in the overall space of religion, commerce, and the state. The book argues that State of Singapore also operates between the secular and the religious, constructing an overarching spatial regime that both accommodates and yet rivals the alternate spheres that spiritual movements construct under its umbrella. Both spatial configurations challenge the presumed relationships between myth and reality, religion and commerce, the ethereal and the concrete, the sacred and the secular, on the levels of self, community, and polity. Singapore, now deemed a model for urban development in Asia, also offers an understanding of a new post-secularity and perhaps reveals where the urbanized world is headed.


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