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What are the rosary and nun’s habit if not Catholic?': The Chapel Party Controversy in Singapore
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Hudd, S, What are the rosary and nun's habit if not Catholic?': The Chapel Party Controversy in Singapore, Limina (Online): a journal of historical and cultural studies, 20, (1) pp. 1-15. ISSN 1833-3419 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
This article analyses the controversy over the advertising of a dance party to be held in the
former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus and contextualises it with similar controversies
which occurred concurrently - Taoist robes worn at a fashion parade, and posters put up by
the Campus Crusade for Christ. The community and government reading of these events as
instances of insensitivity to religious faiths tell us about the power of state ideology, and the
conflation of religious and racial harmony; a salient reminder that, in Singapore, modernity
is not the same as Westernisation. The cancellation of the Chapel Party demonstrates the
privileging in Singapore of religious sensitivities so that religious harmony is understood as
racial harmony. It also demonstrates that in a city of constant change, repurposing of a
building does not always erase memories of its previous use.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Asian History |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Other Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Field: | Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Hudd, S (Dr Sandra Hudd) |
| ID Code: | 92521 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Deposited By: | Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2014-06-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-02 |
| Downloads: | 322 View Download Statistics |
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