Community imagination as a social process : the case of a protestant church community.

• Main Author: Ong, Yan Sen.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48273
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article reanalyzes the dynamics of imagination in Benedict Anderson's framework on imagined communities. Past treatments of community imagination are found to be premised on a binary dynamic of existent/non-existent. This article studies ideological schemata and imagination management in a...