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Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

Marjorie Topley and Jean DeBernardi

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9789888028146

Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028146.001.0001

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Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore

Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore

(1956)*

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(p.124) (p.125) Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore
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Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore
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Marjorie Topley

, Jean DeBernardi
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Hong Kong University Press
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888028146.003.0008

This chapter argues that the term “temple” in English is used to cover many kinds of places of Chinese worship, and that it might therefore, be advisable to restrict its use to at least the non-residential kind. The Chinese themselves have many terms to describe the kind of building where worship is carried out, and although many of these are not a very accurate guide to the type of worship carried out in them, some have come to be identified with places where particular kinds of shen are worshipped or special kinds of people live. Some terms moreover, should be, and in most cases are, used only in describing Buddhist residential institutions and others for the non-residential kind. Names for places of worship are selected on various principles, and are quite often chosen by the master after the name of his own “parent” establishment. The chapter also says something about Chinese religious background.

Keywords:   temple, Chinese, worship, shen, Buddhism, residential institutions, religion, places of worship

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