Encountering Islam : : The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Hui Yew-Foong.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Contributors
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Introduction — Encountering Islam
- Part II. Islam across Borders
- 2. Religious elites and the state in Indonesia and elsewhere: Why take-overs are so difficult and usually don’t work
- 3. “I was the Guest of Allah”: Modern Hajj Memoirs from Southeast Asia
- 4. The Aurad Muhammadiah Congregation: Modern Transnational Sufism in Southeast Asia
- Part III. Malaysia
- 5. Legal-Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia: Homogenizing and Ringfencing the Muslim Subject
- 6. The Letter of the Law and the Reckoning of Justice among Tamils in Malaysia
- 7. Islamization and Ethnicity in Sabah, Malaysia
- Part IV. Indonesia
- 8. Natsir and Sukarno: Their Clash over Nationalism, Religion and Democracy, 1928–1958
- 9. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah
- 10. Religion and the Politics of Morality: Muslim Women Activists and the Pornography Debate in Indonesia
- Part V. Muslim Minorities
- 11. Malay Muslims and the Thai-Buddhist State: Confrontation, Accommodation and Disengagement
- 12. Identifying with Fiction: The Art and Politics of Short Story Writing by Muslims in the Philippines
- 13. Issues on Islam and the Muslims in Singapore Post-9/11: An Analysis of the Dominant Perspective
- Index