RT Book
T1 Singapore, spirituality, and the space of the state: soul of the little red dot
A1 Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
LA English
PP London, England
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2020
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/169474454X
AB "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."--
AB List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. -- Macrospaces and Microplaces -- 2. Statecraft and Cosmology-Making the Macrocosm in Singapore -- 3: Macrospaces-Guru Style -- 4. Yoga on the Move -- 5. Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands-Singapore -- 6. How is a Guru like a High-Rise? -- 7. Templing Gurus in Little India -- Bibliography -- Index.
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN NA5621.S55
SN 135008655X
SN 9781350086586
SN 9781350086562
SN 9781350086555
K1 Church Buildings : Singapore
K1 Temples : Singapore
K1 Mosques : Singapore
K1 Spirituality : Singapore
K1 Black & Asian studies
K1 Singapore : Buildings, structures, etc
K1 Electronic books
DO 10.5040/9781350086586