Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects: sacred modernities and the micro-regulation of Hinduism in Singapore

• Main Authors: WOODS, Orlando, KONG, Lily
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• 主題: Sacred modernities; micro-regulation; religious subjects; Hinduism; Singapore; Asian Studies; Religion
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3575
• 機構: Singapore Management University

This paper develops the idea of “sacred modernities” to explore how the state- led regulation of religion shapes religious communities and religious subjects therein. Sacred modernities define the ways in which sacredness is understood and engaged with under conditions of secular modernity, and in p...