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In Search of Permanent Homes: Singapore's House Churches and the Politics of Space

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  • Lily Kong

    (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570, lilykong@nus.edu.sg)

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This paper focuses on one category of the 'unofficially sacred'-namely, those secular spaces which are used for worship and, in particular, residential spaces which are turned into 'house churches'. Using the case study of a house church in Singapore, the paper examines issues about the politics of religion in urban landscapes in a secular and simultaneously multireligious state. Contrary and in addition to current wisdoms about the politics of religious space, it is argued that various politics are observed: a politics of inclusion; a politics of hybridisation and in-betweenness; a politics of appropriation and nationalisation; and a politics of impermanence and precarity. Through this analysis, the paper seeks to bring added conceptual perspectives to the notion of 'sacred space' within the context of modern, urban, secular settings.

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  • Lily Kong, 2002. "In Search of Permanent Homes: Singapore's House Churches and the Politics of Space," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(9), pages 1573-1586, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:39:y:2002:i:9:p:1573-1586
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980220151664
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