In Search of Permanent Homes: Singapore's House Churches and the Politics of Space
This paper focuses on one category of the 'unofficially sacred'-namely, those secular spaces which are used for worship and, in particular, residential spaces which are turned into 'house churches'. Using the case study of a house church in Singapore, the paper examines issues ab...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2002
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1730 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2987/viewcontent/SearchPermanentHomes_UrbanStudies_2002.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on one category of the 'unofficially sacred'-namely, those secular spaces which are used for worship and, in particular, residential spaces which are turned into 'house churches'. Using the case study of a house church in Singapore, the paper examines issues about the politics of religion in urban landscapes in a secular and simultaneously multireligious state. Contrary and in addition to current wisdoms about the politics of religious space, it is argued that various politics are observed: a politics of inclusion; a politics of hybridisation and in-betweenness; a politics of appropriation and nationalisation; and a politics of impermanence and precarity. Through this analysis, the paper seeks to bring added conceptual perspectives to the notion of 'sacred space' within the context of modern, urban, secular settings. |
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