Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia
Hui Yew-Foong, editor
Date of publication:
2012
Publisher:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Number of pages:
401
Code:
BM459
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789814379922
Reviews
"Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia, edited by Hui Yew-Foong, may not frame the culture-wars debate among Muslims in the region, but the book's three chapters on Islam in Indonesia can be more easily understood if read from the differing perspectives of the conservative-liberal political spectrum"(Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies).
About the publication
This volume seeks to introduce and deepen the understanding of Islam and its role in politics as encountered in different national and transnational contexts in Southeast Asia, eschewing the neo-orientalist approach that has informed public discourse in recent years. In Encountering Islam, the book lingers beyond the summary moment and reflects on the multiple impressions, suppressions and repressions, whether coherent or incoherent, associated with Islam as a socio-political force in public life. To this end, it is not adequate simply to represent the divergent identities associated with Islam in Southeast Asia, whether embedded in state-endorsed orthodoxy or Islamic movements that contest such orthodoxy. It is also important to examine religious minorities in political contexts where Islam is dominant and Muslim communities in national contexts where they are minorities. By situating these religious identities within their larger socio-political contexts, this volume seeks to provide a more holistic understanding of what is encountered as Islam in Southeast Asia.
Contents
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Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia
[Whole Publication, ISBN: 9789814379939] -
Preliminary pages
- PART I: INTRODUCTION
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1. Introduction - Encountering Islam, by Hui Yew-Foong, author
- PART II: ISLAM ACROSS BORDERS
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2. Religious Elites and the State in Indonesia and Elsewhere: Why Takeovers are so Difficult and Usually Don't Work, by M C Ricklefs, author
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3. "I was the Guest of Allah": Modern Hajj Memoirs from Southeast Asia, by Eric Tagliacozzo, author
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4. The Aurad Mohammadiah Congregation: Modern Transnational Sufism in Southeast Asia, by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, author
- PART III: MALAYSIA
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5. Legal-Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia: Homeogenizing and Ringfencing the Muslim Subject, by Maznah Mohamad, author
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6. The Letter of the Law and Reckoning of Justice among Tamils in Malaysia, by Andrew C Willford, author
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7. Islamization and Ethnicity in Sabah, Malaysia, by Regina Lim, author
- PART IV: INDONESIA
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8. Natsir and Sukarno: Their Clash over Nationalism, Religion and Democracy, 1928-1958, by Audrey Kahin, author
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9. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah, by Bernhard Platzdasch, author
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10. Religion and the Politics of Morality: Muslim Women Activists and the Pornography Debate in Indonesia, by Rachel Rinaldo, author
- PART V: MUSLIM MINORITIES
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11. Malay Muslims and the Thai-Buddhist State: Confrontation, Accommodation and Disengagement, by Ernesto H Braam, author
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12. Identifying with Fiction: The Art and Politics of Short Story Writing by Muslims in the Philippines, by Coeli Barry, author
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13. Issues on Islam and the Muslims in Singapore Post-9/11: An Analysis of the Dominant Perspective, by Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman, author
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