Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political Developments And Religious Change In Singapore
In Chinese communities in the Asia Pacific region, religion constitutes an integral element of Chinese cultural identity. However, in Singapore's ethnically mixed environment, religious synthesis is becoming increasingly common with Chinese vernacular religion integrating beliefs and practic...
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| description | In Chinese communities in the Asia Pacific region, religion constitutes an integral
element of Chinese cultural identity. However, in Singapore's ethnically mixed
environment, religious synthesis is becoming increasingly common with Chinese
vernacular religion integrating beliefs and practices from neighbouring ethnic
groups. Government policy in Singapore on the management of ethnic groups has
been shaped by the aspiration to construct a multicultural nationalistic state,
inadvertently fuelling religious acculturation, appropriation, interpenetration,
transfiguration, hybridisation and cultural borrowing between ethnic and
religious groups. An analysis of the interrelationship between the socio-political
and religious arenas highlights varied catalysts that trigger these "technologies of
new religious synthesis," and provides illustrations of their fundamental role as
"self-perpetuating mechanisms" in multi-faith religious landscapes. |
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| spelling | usm-408992018-07-04T08:37:36Z http://eprints.usm.my/40899/ Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political Developments And Religious Change In Singapore C. Graham, Fabian P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) In Chinese communities in the Asia Pacific region, religion constitutes an integral element of Chinese cultural identity. However, in Singapore's ethnically mixed environment, religious synthesis is becoming increasingly common with Chinese vernacular religion integrating beliefs and practices from neighbouring ethnic groups. Government policy in Singapore on the management of ethnic groups has been shaped by the aspiration to construct a multicultural nationalistic state, inadvertently fuelling religious acculturation, appropriation, interpenetration, transfiguration, hybridisation and cultural borrowing between ethnic and religious groups. An analysis of the interrelationship between the socio-political and religious arenas highlights varied catalysts that trigger these "technologies of new religious synthesis," and provides illustrations of their fundamental role as "self-perpetuating mechanisms" in multi-faith religious landscapes. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40899/1/IJAPS-121-2016-Art.-493-124.pdf C. Graham, Fabian (2016) Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political Developments And Religious Change In Singapore. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 12 (1). pp. 93-124. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IJAPS-121-2016-Art.-493-124.pdf |
| spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) C. Graham, Fabian Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political Developments And Religious Change In Singapore |
| title | Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious
Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political
Developments And Religious Change
In Singapore |
| title_full | Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious
Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political
Developments And Religious Change
In Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious
Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political
Developments And Religious Change
In Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious
Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political
Developments And Religious Change
In Singapore |
| title_short | Self-perpetuating Technologies Of Religious
Synthesis: A Case Study Of Socio-political
Developments And Religious Change
In Singapore |
| title_sort | self-perpetuating technologies of religious
synthesis: a case study of socio-political
developments and religious change
in singapore |
| topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/40899/ http://eprints.usm.my/40899/ http://eprints.usm.my/40899/1/IJAPS-121-2016-Art.-493-124.pdf |