Religion and Spaces of Technology

Constructing and Contesting Nation, Transnation, and Place

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5110098
AutoresL Kong (0000-0003-4107-4762, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas903-918
Fecha de publicación2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a37215
OpenAlexW1968686810
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas22

In this paper, I focus on one particular technological development that has come to influence religious practice in significant ways-religious broadcasting. Whereas computer-mediated communications now garner growing research attention, I have chosen to remember the influence of the older technology of broadcasting for its continued influence on myriad lives. In bringing this focus to bear on another major phenomenon, that of transnationalism, I have come to understand how religious broadcasting does not contribute in a straightforward, linear fashion to perpetuating transnational identities and communities, but is instead implicated in the assertion of the national in the face of transnational influences, while simultaneously enabling and challenging the transnational. I am aided in this understanding through an examination of religious broadcasting in multireligious, yet secular Singapore, and its impacts on a significant Muslim minority which is, nevertheless, recognised as deserving of special privileges

Assertion · Epistemology · Media studies · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Socioeconomic Development in Asia