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Comaroff, Joshua Adam.

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Vulgarity and enchantment: Religious movements and the space of the state.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vulgarity and enchantment: Religious movements and the space of the state./
Author:	Comaroff, Joshua Adam.
Description:	641 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2171.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-06A.
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3410362
ISBN:	9781124023274

Vulgarity and enchantment: Religious movements and the space of the state.
Comaroff, Joshua Adam.

Vulgarity and enchantment: Religious movements and the space of the state. - 641 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2171.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.

This dissertation examines two types of religious practice in contemporary Singapore. The first is known as "Chinese religion"---an amalgam of Buddhist and Taoist traditions. The second is charismatic Christianity. These are studied with respect to their "strategies of emplacement": the methods by which their adherents describe and make places. Through the close analysis of informants' accounts, this thesis attempts to demonstrate modes of place-making unique to religious communities. These often appear as mobile and protean, and suggest alternative accounts of authority. They provide a contrast to strategies by the ruling People's Action Party, which has long worked toward a nation divided into discrete communities administered by its Housing and Development Board. It is argued that the government posits a notion of "place" emphasizing locational fixity and social stasis; by contrast, the more fluid geographies of religious practice provide an alternative to official orders and definitions. In conclusion, it is argued that the latter offer a partial return of political agency in this authoritarian context.

ISBN: 9781124023274Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Vulgarity and enchantment: Religious movements and the space of the state.
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