State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore (Second Edition)
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...
| Subtitles: | State, Society & Religious Engineering |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
2009.
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism ; Social aspects ; Singapore
B Buddhist renewal (Singapore) B Buddhist renewal ; Singapore B Buddhist renewal Singapore B Buddhism and state Singapore B Buddhism Social aspects (Singapore) B Buddhism and state (Singapore) B Buddhism and state ; Singapore B Buddhism Social aspects Singapore |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789812308658 |
| Summary: | 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 help to fill the missing gap in the scholarly literature on this area. This is also a topic of great significance in many Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, countries and it will serve as an important book for future reference in this area of research and comparative studies. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 337 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9812309136 |