Title
Year
Author
"Negotiation" between a religious art form and the secular state: Chinese puppet theater in Singapore and the case study of Sin Hoe Ping
"Negotiation" between a religious art form and the secular state: Chinese puppet theater in Singapore and the case study of Sin Hoe Ping
2017
Chia, Caroline
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Chia, Caroline |
Title |
"Negotiation" between a religious art form and the secular state: Chinese puppet theater in Singapore and the case study of Sin Hoe Ping |
Source Title | Asian Ethnology |
Publication Date | 2017 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/90017549 |
Subject |
Puppet theater -- Singapore Chinese -- Singapore -- religion Singapore -- Religious life and customs Sin Hoe Ping Puppet Troupe |
Page | 117-144 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 76 |
Issue | 1 |
Description |
Traditional art forms often face rapid decline if they are not able to keep pace with a changing society. This article will examine puppet theater as performed by Chinese descent groups in temples and public spaces in Singapore as a case study of the adaptation of particular ethnic traditions at a time of an intense process of modernization. The island state of Singapore comprises various ethnic groups from different religious backgrounds living together in an advanced economy. On the one hand, the government ensures that the ethno-religious framework is protected through policies and laws. On the other, it seeks to maintain social cohesion by not favoring any religious group and by downplaying religious and ethnic divides. As discussed here, notions of "Chineseness" need to be accommodated within state policies based on the "harmonization" of racial and religious differences. The traditional art form investigated here, Chinese puppet theater, is characteristically linked to ethnicity and religion. How, then, does this ritual art form "negotiate" with a state that emphasizes secularism and seeks to elide multiracial and multi-religious differences? This study proposes a distinction between the "state-regulated realm" and the "state-tolerated realm" to suggest how Chinese puppet theater has engaged in negotiation with the Singaporean state to enable it to survive and even flourish. The focus will be on the Sin Hoe Ping Puppet Troupe, which has demonstrated considerable flexibility in adapting to secularized Singapore. |
“Asian values” in different forms: a comparative examination of how Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar address insults to religion
“Asian values” in different forms: a comparative examination of how Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar address insults to religion
2021
Chao, Ivan Ng Yan
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Chao, Ivan Ng Yan |
Title |
“Asian values” in different forms: a comparative examination of how Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar address insults to religion |
Source Title | Religion and Human Rights |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18710328-BJA10013 |
Subject |
Religion and law -- Singapore Freedom of speech -- Singapore Offenses against religion -- Law and legislation -- Singapore Social values -- Singapore |
Page | 207-240 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 3 |
Abstract |
Insults to religion have the potential to stoke tensions and result in physical violence. To protect religious sensitivities, speech which insults religion may be criminalised, even in countries where freedom of speech is enshrined as a constitutional right. The purpose of this article is to look at the role played by the state in dealing with speech which insults religion, through an examination of three Southeast Asian case studies. This article attempts to provide a comparison of the constitutional provisions and specific legislation relating to the insulting of religion in the three countries, as well as consider how the laws have worked in practice. It finds that while the 'law on the books' across the three countries may have broad similarities in the way they are drafted, they differ vastly in the ways they are applied and enforced, due to differences in the state-religion relationship, religious demographics and the influence of religious nationalism. At the same time, despite the social, political and cultural heterogeneity of the three countries, the prioritisation of communitarian interests in the three countries over the freedom of speech suggests the continued salience of “Asian values” in Southeast Asia. |
“Contramodernist Buddhism” in a global city-state: Shinnyo-en in Singapore
“Contramodernist Buddhism” in a global city-state: Shinnyo-en in Singapore
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Phua, Keng Yung |
Title |
“Contramodernist Buddhism” in a global city-state: Shinnyo-en in Singapore |
Source Title | Religions |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13030265 |
Subject |
Buddhism -- Singapore Shinnyo-en (Singapore) |
Page | 265 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 3 |
“World‐class Muslims”: examining the discursive construction of a Singapore Muslim identity
“World‐class Muslims”: examining the discursive construction of a Singapore Muslim identity
2019
Muneerah Abdul Razak
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Muneerah Abdul Razak |
Title |
“World‐class Muslims”: examining the discursive construction of a Singapore Muslim identity |
Source Title | The Muslim World |
Publication Date | 2019 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12300 |
Call Number | DS36 MW |
Subject |
Muslims -- Singapore Muslims -- Singapore -- Religious life Multiculturalism--Singapore Islam -- Singapore |
Page | 417-430 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 109 |
Issue | 3 |
Description |
The Muslim minority community in Singapore came under great scrutiny in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and even more so, after the arrests of local members of terrorist network, Jemaah Islamiyah, in 2001 and the 2002 Bali bombings. Consequently, the identity of a Singaporean Muslim was problematised as questions arose surrounding the compatibility of being Muslim and a citizen of a nation‐state |
50: Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, 1968 - 2018: striving with confidence, serving with compassion
50: Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, 1968 - 2018: striving with confidence, serving with compassion
2019
Green, Anthony
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Green, Anthony |
Title |
50: Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, 1968 - 2018: striving with confidence, serving with compassion |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Singapore: Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura |
Call Number | BP63.S55 Gre 2019 |
Subject |
Muslim Religious Council of Singapore -- Anniversaries, etc. Malays (Asian people) -- Singapore Muslims -- Singapore |
Page | 215 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
85 years service to Singapore
85 years service to Singapore
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Muslim Missionary Society Singapore |
Title |
85 years service to Singapore |
Publication Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Singapore: Muslim Missionary Society Singapore (Jamiyah) |
Call Number | BP63.S55 Mus 2017 |
Subject |
Muslim Missionary Society Singapore -- Anniversaries, etc. Islam -- Missions -- Singapore Da'wah (Islam) Islam -- Singapore |
Page | 71 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Has Version |
Special edition |
A new religious movement in Singapore: syncretism and variation in the Sathya Sai Baba movement
A new religious movement in Singapore: syncretism and variation in the Sathya Sai Baba movement
2008
Pereira, Shane N.
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Pereira, Shane N. |
Title |
A new religious movement in Singapore: syncretism and variation in the Sathya Sai Baba movement |
Source Title | Asian Journal of Social Science |
Publication Date | 2008 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853108X298699 |
Call Number | HM1 SAS |
Subject |
Sathya Sai Baba, 1926-2011|Cults--Singapore Hinduism--Singapore Syncretism (Religion)--Singapore |
Page | 250-270 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 2 |
A preliminary account of Buddhism in Singapore
A preliminary account of Buddhism in Singapore
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Wee, Vivienne |
Title |
A preliminary account of Buddhism in Singapore |
Publication Date | 1975 |
Publisher | Singapore : Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore |
Call Number | BL1445.12 Wee |
Subject |
Buddhism -- Singapore |
Page | 56 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
A study of United Temple in Singapore—analysis of union from the perspective of sub-temple
A study of United Temple in Singapore—analysis of union from the perspective of sub-temple
2022
Hue, Guan Thye
Wang, Yidan
Dean, Kenneth
Lin, Ruo
Tang, Chang
Choo, Juhn Khai Klan
Liu, Yilin
Kui, Wei Kai
Dong, Weikai
Xue, Yiran
Chia, Caroline
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Hue, Guan Thye Wang, Yidan Dean, Kenneth Lin, Ruo Tang, Chang Choo, Juhn Khai Klan Liu, Yilin Kui, Wei Kai Dong, Weikai Xue, Yiran Chia, Caroline |
Title |
A study of United Temple in Singapore—analysis of union from the perspective of sub-temple |
Source Title | Religions |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13070602 |
Subject |
Temples -- Singapore Chinese -- Singapore |
Page | 602 |
Language | English |
URI | |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 7 |
Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects: sacred modernities and the micro-regulation of Hinduism in Singapore
Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects: sacred modernities and the micro-regulation of Hinduism in Singapore
2022
Woods, Orlando
Kong, Lily
Collection | Religion |
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Author/Creator |
Woods, Orlando Kong, Lily |
Editor |
Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects: sacred modernities and the micro-regulation of Hinduism in Singapore |
Organisation |
Woods, Orlando Kong, Lily |
Title |
Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects: sacred modernities and the micro-regulation of Hinduism in Singapore |
Source Title | Journal of Cultural Geography |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2022.2059234 |
Subject |
Hindu temples -- Singapore Hinduism -- Singapore |
Page | 182-200 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 2 |
Abstract |
This paper develops the idea of “sacred modernities” to explore how the state-led regulation of religion shapes religious communities and religious subjects therein. Sacred modernities define the ways in which sacredness is understood and engaged with under conditions of secular modernity, and in particular, how sacredness is experienced within a context of micro-regulated religious space. We illustrate these ideas through an empirical examination of how Singapore’s Hindu community engages with the idea of sacredness in and through the temple. By contrasting the experiences of Singaporean and non-Singaporean Hindus, we argue that Singapore’s temples offer an aestheticized experience of the sacred that is rational in its affects. Differential expectations and experiences of the sacred can reveal divisions within the Hindu community along Singaporean/migrant lines. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
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