Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space

This paper explores the recursive relationship between religious praxisand urban environments. It advances the concept of “religious urbanism” to showhow urban environments play an active role in shaping the praxis of religion,and how religious groups adopt secular logics in response to the pressure...

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Main Author:	WOODS, Orlando
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Language:	English
Published:	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
Subjects:	Religious urbanism space desecularisation Singapore Christianity competition Asian Studies Religion Urban Studies and Planning
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spelling	sg-smu-ink.soss_research-39602020-07-21T02:59:38Z Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space WOODS, Orlando This paper explores the recursive relationship between religious praxisand urban environments. It advances the concept of “religious urbanism” to showhow urban environments play an active role in shaping the praxis of religion,and how religious groups adopt secular logics in response to the pressures ofurban environments. Such logics have given rise to new, more pragmatic forms ofspatial reproduction that lead to the desecularisation of space. Desecularisationinvolves religious groups diminishing the secular properties of space, ratherthan attempting to achieve any lasting notion of sacredness. Drawing on therestrictive religio-spatial context of Singapore, I demonstrate howfast-growing religious groups are forced to compete, commercialise, andcompromise in order to acquire space. Combined, these factors have come to definereligious urbanism in Singapore, and highlight the gulf between the planningand praxis of religion in urban environments. 2019-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2703 info:doi/10.1177/0037768618805871 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3960/viewcontent/Religious_urbanism_in_Singapore_2018_afv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Religious urbanism space desecularisation Singapore Christianity competition Asian Studies Religion Urban Studies and Planning
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description	This paper explores the recursive relationship between religious praxisand urban environments. It advances the concept of “religious urbanism” to showhow urban environments play an active role in shaping the praxis of religion,and how religious groups adopt secular logics in response to the pressures ofurban environments. Such logics have given rise to new, more pragmatic forms ofspatial reproduction that lead to the desecularisation of space. Desecularisationinvolves religious groups diminishing the secular properties of space, ratherthan attempting to achieve any lasting notion of sacredness. Drawing on therestrictive religio-spatial context of Singapore, I demonstrate howfast-growing religious groups are forced to compete, commercialise, andcompromise in order to acquire space. Combined, these factors have come to definereligious urbanism in Singapore, and highlight the gulf between the planningand praxis of religion in urban environments.
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author	WOODS, Orlando
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title	Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
title_short	Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
title_full	Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
title_fullStr	Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
title_full_unstemmed	Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
title_sort	religious urbanism in singapore: competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space
publisher	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate	2019
url	https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2703 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3960/viewcontent/Religious_urbanism_in_Singapore_2018_afv.pdf
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