Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
4-2019
Abstract
Migration results in people that are different from one another living in closer physicalproximity. Proximity increases the chances of encountering difference, and can lead to boththe formation of new communities, and the strengthening of old. As a religion that claims tointegrate people into a trans-ethnic, trans-territorial faith community, Christianity encouragessuch encounters, whilst Christian groups play an important role in mediating them.Disjunctures of belonging and belief are the outcomes that arise from encounters withdifference within spaces of Christianity. Drawing on 100 interviews conducted betweenAugust 2017 and February 2018, this paper unravels these disjunctures through a focus on theinterplay between migrant and non-migrant Christian communities in Singapore. WhilstChristian groups have the potential to be agents of integration, we consider the ways in whichthey encourage the ‘bordering of identity’ by serving to divide communities rather than unitethem.
Keywords
Christianity, Singapore, migration, difference, bordering of identity
Discipline
Asian Studies | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Population, Space and Place
Volume
25
Issue
6
First Page
1
Last Page
10
ISSN
1544-8444
Identifier
10.1002/psp.2235
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
KONG, Lily, & WOODS, Orlando.(2019). Disjunctures of belonging and belief: Christian migrants and the bordering of identity in Singapore. Population, Space and Place, 25(6), 1-10.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2823
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2235