Piety and politics : Islamism in contemporary Malaysia /

Malaysia, home to some twenty million Muslims, is often held up as a model of a pro-Western Islamic nation. The government of Malaysia, in search of Western investment, does its best to perpetuate this view. But this isn't the whole story. Over the last several decades, Joseph Liow shows, Malay...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liow, Joseph Chinyong, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Series:Religion and global politics.
Subjects:
United Malays National Organisation.
United Malays National Organisation
Islam and politics > Malaysia.
Islam and state > Malaysia.
Islamic fundamentalism > Malaysia.
Islam et État > Malaisie.
Intégrisme islamique > Malaisie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > General.
Islam and politics
Islam and state
Islamic fundamentalism
Politics and government
Malaysia > Politics and government.
Malaysia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Genesis of an Islamist agenda
  • The Malaysian state and the bureaucratization of Islam
  • Reconstructing and reinforcing Islamism
  • 'Popular' political Islam : representations and discourses
  • 'Securing' Islam in a time of turbulence
  • Conclusion.

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