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Religious Diversity in Muslim-majority States in Southeast Asia : Areas of Toleration and Conflict /

Volume and comparisons of contrasting developments in the two countries, challenges readers not to resort to easy conclusions and overgeneralizations about rising inter-religious tensions, but to give more scholarly attention to this politics-religion diversity nexus."--Emeritus Professor Franc...

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Other Authors: Platzdasch, Bernhard (Editor), Saravanamuttu, J. (Jayaratnam) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • INDONESIA
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. NU and Muhammadiyah: Majority Views on Religious Minorities in Indonesia
  • 3. Islam, Religious Minorities, and the Challenge of the Blasphemy Laws: A Close Look at the Current Liberal Muslim Discourse
  • 4. Reading Ahmadiyah and Discourses on Freedom of Religion in Indonesia
  • 5. Sanctions Against Popstars ... and Politicians? Indonesia's 2008 Pornography Law and Its Aftermath
  • 6. The Inter-Religious Harmony Forum, the Ombudsman, and the State: Resolving Church Permit Disputes in Indonesia?
  • 7. In Each Other's Shadow: Building Pentecostal Churches in Muslim Java
  • 8. Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Conflict Ambon, Moluccas: Adat, Religion, and Beyond
  • 9. Chinese Muslim Cultural Identities: Possibilties and Limitations of Cosmopolitan Islam in Indonesia
  • 10. Majority and Minority: Preserving Animist and Mystical Practices in Far East Java
  • 11. An Abangan-like Group in a Santri Island: The Religious Identity of the Blater
  • MALAYSIA
  • 12. Introduction
  • 13. Islamic Praxis and Theory: Negotiating Orthodoxy in Contemporary Malaysia
  • 14. Religious Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism at the City Crossroads
  • 15. The Christian Response to State-led Islamization in Malaysia
  • 16. The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Malaysia
  • 17. Hindraf as a Response to Islamization in Malaysia
  • 18. "Deviant" Muslims: The Plight of Shias in Contemporary Malaysia
  • 19. Being Christians in Muslim-majority Malaysia: The Kelabit and Lun Bawang Experiences in Sarawak
  • 20. Everyday Religiosity and the Ambiguation of Development in East Malaysia: Reflections on a Dam-Construction and Resettlement Project
  • Index.