A Study of United Temple in Singapore—Analysis of Union from the Perspective of Sub-Temple

This paper attempts to examine the formation path of United Temple. Since research on Temple has focused more its organization and religious practice in contemporary Singapore, looks at sub-temples under Singapore Temple, analyzing their paths toward unification from a extended historical perspective. The authors divide into three categories: ancestral temples (???), geographic (???), deity-related (???) compare flexible strategies. tries explain how Temples was influenced by multiple spatial, social, cultural factors. blood lineage, religion, regional ties homeland could still be essential when localized, community-based social links beyond boundaries play an equally crucial integrative role forming Temples. It is contention this study Temple—the unique space Singapore—as potential syncretic field present past.