This paper explores the controversial confluence of religion and popular culture in Singapore. It... more This paper explores the controversial confluence of religion and popular culture in Singapore. It explores the rationale and workings of both Christian and Muslim religious agents and organizations that instigate this collusion of social domains that are commonly perceived to be mutually exclusive. This paper frames the confluence of religion and popular culture as an attempt by religionists to missionize culture using the very tools of culture. This paper makes a conceptual distinction between explicit and implicit forms of religious popular culture, and draws out both contrasts and similarities between Christianity and Islam in their approaches and attempts to do the work of cultural missionizing.
This paper explores the controversial confluence of religion and popular culture in Singapore. It... more This paper explores the controversial confluence of religion and popular culture in Singapore. It explores the rationale and workings of both Christian and Muslim religious agents and organizations that instigate this collusion of social domains that are commonly perceived to be mutually exclusive. This paper frames the confluence of religion and popular culture as an attempt by religionists to missionize culture using the very tools of culture. This paper makes a conceptual distinction between explicit and implicit forms of religious popular culture, and draws out both contrasts and similarities between Christianity and Islam in their approaches and attempts to do the work of cultural missionizing.
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