Chee-Kiong Tong

Rationalizing Religion: Religious Conversion, Revivalism and Competition in Singapore Society

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Examining modernity and religion this book disputes the widely-spread secularization hypothesis. Using the example of Singapore, as well as comparative data on religion in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, it convincingly argues that rapid social change and modernity have not led here to the decline of religion but on the contrary, to a certain revivalism. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of twenty years, the author analyzes the nature of religious change in a society with a complex ethnic and religious composition. What happens when there are so many religions co-existing in such close proximity? G… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-90-04-15694-4
EAN: 9789004156944
Produktnummer: 2726104
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 326 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.0 cm 608 g
Reihenbandnummer: 13
Gewicht: 608

Über den Autor

Tong Chee Kiong teaches at the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, USA. Tong's research interests focus on ethnicity and religion. His publications include Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore ( 2004) and Alternate Identities: The Chinese of Contemporary Thailand (Brill 2001). Tong has published papers in British Journal of Sociology, Diaspora, International Sociology and International Migration Review.