The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to processes of modernisation and change and how the Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multifunctional temple complexes. This is the first to be published on this topic -- the relationship between state, society and religion. It will help to fill the missing gap in the scholarly literature on this area. This is also a topic of great significance in many Asian and particularly Southeast Asian countries and it will serve as an important book for future reference in this area of research and for comparative purposes.
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Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is currently Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. Dr Kuah-Pearce has been Visiting Scholar to Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, and East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Dr Kuah-Pearce's academic interests are in Chinese Diaspora Studies and Religion and Politics.
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