Overview
- Presents an analysis of the religious landscape of the Straits Settlements, something which has not yet been comprehensively undertaken in the scholarship.
- Offers an institutional history of the Mohamedan and Hindu Endowments Board for Singapore, which is also unexplored research territory.
- Based on primary archival materia, presented for the first time here.
Part of the book series: ARI - Springer Asia Series (ARI, volume 1)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize ‘religion-state’ relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore. The core research problematic of this project has emerged out of the confluence of two domains, ‘religion, law and bureaucracy’ and ‘religion and colonial encounters.’ This work has two core objectives: one, to articulate the actual points of engagement between institutions of religion and the state, and two, to identify the various processes, mechanisms and strategies through which relations across these spheres are sustained. The thematic foundations of this book rest on disentangling the complex interactions between religious communities, individuals and the various manifestations of the Singapore state, relationships that are framed within a culture of bureaucracy. This is accomplished through a scrutiny of Hindu domains on the island nation-state, from her identity as part of the Straits Settlements to the present day. The empirical and analytical emphases of this book rest on the author's engagement with the realm of Hinduism as it is conceived, structured, framed and practiced within the context of a strong state in Singapore today. Ethnographically,the book focusses on Hindu temple management and the observance of Hindu festivals and processions, enacted within administrative and bureaucratic frames.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains
Book Subtitle: From the Straits Settlements to Singapore
Authors: Vineeta Sinha
Series Title: ARI - Springer Asia Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0887-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0886-0Published: 09 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3586-6Published: 29 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0887-7Published: 07 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2367-105X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 284
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Cities, Countries, Regions, Sociology, general, Anthropology