IPS Working Papers No. 66 — Moral Attitudes in Flux: Comparing Trends across Religions in Singapore

28 August 2025

Singapore’s multi-religious compact — built on freedom of belief and a shared civic space — has to reckon with debates on family, sexuality, and individual choice. Against this backdrop, this paper draws on the 2024 IPS Survey on Race, Religion and Language (RRL), a nationally representative study of 4,000 residents. Where relevant, these responses are compared with results from the 2013 and 2018 RRL waves. Our aim is to chart how Singaporeans evaluate everyday moral questions (from gambling and fidelity to cohabitation, premarital sex, divorce and same-sex issues); how these views differ by age and religious tradition and how they have shifted over the past decade within Singapore’s distinctive multicultural framework.


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