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  • Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains

    From the Straits Settlements to Singapore

    by Vineeta Sinha ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize ‘religion-state’ relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore. The core research problematic of this project has emerged out of the confluence of two domains, ‘religion, law and bureaucracy’ and ‘religion and colonial encounters.’ This work has two core objectives: one, to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Religion and Commodification

    'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism

    by Vineeta Sinha ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture
    Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which when used in worship also carry immense ritual and symbolic load) an indispensable part of its ... Read more

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  • Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore

    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including chapters on both the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology and neglected thinkers it highlights the biases of Eurocentrism and androcentrism, while also offering much-needed correctives to them. The authors challenge a dominant account of the development of ... Read more

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  • Temple Tracks

    Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

    by Vineeta Sinha ...
    Series Book 16 - Asian Anthropologies
    The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and ... Read more

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