CHAIRPERSON
Dr Philip Fountain, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
ABSTRACT
Over the past decades the Singaporean government has channeled most of its social related resources to the community and consciously encouraged religious institutions to play active roles in the provision of welfare facilities. This in turn has led to an increasing number of strategic public-private partnerships between government agencies and Christian welfare organizations. Christian organizations in Singapore have thus become to function as important non-state sites by addressing social needs and providing certain social services that have gone unmet by the state. The aim of the paper is to explore the different modes and motivations of Christian social engagement in Singapore and its interrelationship to the state. Empirical examples will be given from my ongoing research.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matthias Deininger is a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University (Germany), where he is part of the Junior Research Group “Transcultural Dynamics of Pentecostalism: Pentecostal Christianity between Globalisation and Localised Spheres in Singapore”. His research focuses on the dynamics and strategies of Singaporean based Christian mission activities both within the city-state and across Southeast Asia.
REGISTRATION
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