On 20 March 2021, the Ethos Institute for Public Christianity conducted a seminar on "Religion and Politics in Singapore". The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on the role that religion has played in multi-religious Singapore and the significance of the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA), twenty years after it was introduced.

The speakers at this seminar - Professor Mark Chan, Dr Chiang Ming Shun, and Professor Eugene Tan - discuss the different aspects of the relationship between religion and politics in Singapore. This includes the theological understanding of this relationship, its historical development in the context of Singapore, and the law that governs it, namely, the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA).

We are very pleased to have the Minister for Home Affairs and Law, Mr. K. Shanmugam, at the seminar. The Minister gave and address and took questions from participants.

About the Speakers' Profile:

Dr Mark L. Y. Chan is the Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology. He was formerly the Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity is Asia (CSCA), a research arm of Trinity Theological College as well as editor of the Centre's publication, Church & Society in Asia Today (2007-2013). He is also currently serving on the Ethic Committee of Farrer Park Hospital.

Rev Dr Chiang Ming Shun is the Associate Dean at Trinity Theological College, where he also teaches Church History. His PhD thesis was on Church and State in Singapore. He has been a Methodist pastor fro over 20 years, and comes from a true Singaporean multi-racial and multi-cultural background.

A/Prof Eugene K. B. Tan is an associate professor of law at Singapore Management University's Yong Pung How School of Law where he specialises in constitutional and administrative law and ethnic conflict regulation. He has been involved as an instructor in religion and rule of law training programmes in Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Nepal for more than a decade.

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