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This is a gripping book on the utopia of Singapore from the unexpected perspective of religious studies: wide-ranging, surprising and exciting. A must-read for anyone interested in Singapore. * Peter Van der Veer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany * This book is highly original, well written and interesting to various disciplines and a wider audience. * Hubert Knoblauch, Professor of Sociology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Highly accessible, Waghorne's work takes its readers on a journey of Singapore's dynamism. This is a creative resource for anyone who wants to understand the enduring presence of religion in the life of the city. * Jayeel Cornelio, Associate Professor and Director of Development Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines *

This is a gripping book on the utopia of Singapore from the unexpected perspective of religious studies: wide-ranging, surprising and exciting. A must-read for anyone interested in Singapore. --Peter Van der Veer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany This book is highly original, well written and interesting to various disciplines and a wider audience. --Hubert Knoblauch, Professor of Sociology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany Highly accessible, Waghorne's work takes its readers on a journey of Singapore's dynamism. This is a creative resource for anyone who wants to understand the enduring presence of religion in the life of the city. --Jayeel Cornelio, Associate Professor and Director of Development Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines

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Joanne Punzo Waghorne is Professor in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University, USA. She is the editor of Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity (2017) and author of The Diaspora of the Gods: (2004), and The Raja’s Magic Clothes (1994).

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