The creation of digitally-mediated Christian migrant communities in Singapore

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

This chapter explores how digital technologies and religion coalesce to help strengthen and/or weaken the formation of communities. Whilst digital technologies have made it easier than ever before for international migrants to remain connected to the communities they left behind, religion can provide a potent source of belonging for the territorially dislocated. The creation of digitally-mediated migrant communities can enhance this sense of belonging, but complicate it as well. Drawing on 72 in-depth interviews conducted with Christian migrants and Singapore-based clergy, I explore how digital technologies enable the formation of content-based, connection-based and support-based Christian migrant communities. I highlight the ways in which migrants must negotiate the tension between being here and there, and between online and offfline religious praxes.

Discipline

Asian Studies | Critical and Cultural Studies | Religion

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Religion, hypermobility and digital media in global Asia: Faith, flows and fellowship

Editor

GOMES, Catherine; KONG, Lily; and WOODS, Orlando

First Page

27

Last Page

45

ISBN

9789463728935

Identifier

10.5117/9789463728935_CH01

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

City or Country

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463728935_CH01

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