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State, Society and Religious Engineering
Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
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Description for State, Society and Religious Engineering
Paperback. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. This book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. Num Pages: 337 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HRAM2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multi-functional temple complexes. There has been quite a few books written on the role of the Singapore State but, so far, none has been written on the topic - the relationship between state, society and religion. It will ... Read more
The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multi-functional temple complexes. There has been quite a few books written on the role of the Singapore State but, so far, none has been written on the topic - the relationship between state, society and religion. It will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789812308658
SKU
V9789812308658
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Ref
99-3
About Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
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