Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia : Negotiating Tense Pluralisms.

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...

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Main Author: Camilleri, Joseph
Contributors: Schottmann, Sven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of contributors; Notes on orthography and naming conventions; Preface; 1 Culture, religion and the Southeast Asian state; PART I States, discourses and grandes id{u2965}s; 2 Religion and culture in Southeast Asian regionalism; 3 Religious pluralism in Malaysia: can there be dialogue?; 4 Paving the ground? Malaysia's democratic prospects and the Mahathir government's Islamic discourse
  • 5 Turning conservative Muslims into 'good citizens': new allies in the management of Islam in Singapore after 9/11PART II Conflict and reconciliation; 6 Managing cultural diversity and conflict: the Malaysian experience; 7 From colonialist to infidel: framing the enemy in Southern Thailand's 'cosmic war'; 8 Chinese Indonesians, kongkow and Prabowo: a story of reconciliation in post- New Order Indonesia; 9 Finding a way forward: the search for reconciliation in the Philippines; 10 Devotional Islam and democratic practice: the case of Aceh's qanun jinayat