Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State

Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State
Author: Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350086568

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.

Accessions List, India

Accessions List, India
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 1978
Genre: India
ISBN:

Literary Theory

Literary Theory
Author: Kapil Kapoor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1998
Genre: Indic literature
ISBN: 9788185938868

Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema

Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
Author: Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3189
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135943257

The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.