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Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia Negotiating Tense Pluralisms
216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region.
Focusing on the dynamics of identity politics and the range of responses to the... Read more
1. Culture, religion and the Southeast Asian State Sven Schottmann and Joseph Camilleri Part 1: States, discourses and grandes idées 2. Religion and Culture in Southeast Asian regionalism Joseph Camilleri 3. Religious pluralism in Malaysia: Can there be Dialogue? Gerhard Hoffstaedter 4. Paving the Ground? Malaysia’s democratic prospects and the Mahathir government’s islamic discourse Sven Schottmann 5. Turning conservative Muslims into ‘good citizens’: New allies in the management of islam in Singapore after 9/11 Michael D. Barr Part 2: Conflict and reconciliation 6. Managing cultural diversity and conflict: The Malaysian experience Alberto G. Gomes 7. From colonialist to infidel: Framing the enemy in southern thailand’s ‘Cosmic war’ Virginie André 8. Chinese indonesians, kongkow and prabowo: A story of reconciliation in post-nEw Order Indonesia Jemma Purdey 9. Finding a way forward: The search for reconciliation in the Philippines Peter M. Sales 10. Devotional Islam and democratic practice: The case of Aceh’s Qanun Jinayat Damien Kingsbury 11. Tools of conflict, levers of cohesion: Culture and religion in Muslim Southeast Asia Syed Muhammad Khairudin Aljunied
Biography
Joseph A. Camilleri is Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include regional and global governance, the political economy of Asia-Pacific, the role of religion and culture in international affairs, the politics of oil and the Middle East, and security policy.
Sven Schottmann is a Research Associate at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia. His main research interests are Muslim social movements in Southeast Asia, as well as the range of intellectual and imaginative encounters between Muslims in different parts of the world.
