Migration, mediums and magic : a spirit-medium temple’s encounter and negotiation with Buddhism in post-independence Singapore

• Main Author: Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Religions
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76645
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis is a microhistorical study of how the strategies and belief systems of a spirit-medium temple were transformed as its leadership positioned the organisation within a changing Chinese religious landscape. Notably, this syncretic temple existed in contrast to the Reformist Buddhist movemen...