Forging alternatively sacred spaces in Singapore's integrated religious marketplace

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Christianity; Singapore; urban environments; alternatively sacred spaces; integrated religious marketplaces; Asian Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3232; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4489/viewcontent/1474474020956396__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper expands the notion of sacred space within the geographies of religion by arguing that spaces of religious praxis need to be understood in relation to the broader spatial logics within which they are embedded. Given that the spatial logics of urban environments tend to be secular and neoli...