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ISBN: 9782889312023
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Languages : en
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Religion, Public Policy and Social Transformation in Southeast Asia
Author: Religion, Public Policy and Social Transformation in Southeast Asia: Religion, gender and identity
Author: Dicky SofjanPublisher:
ISBN: 9782889311156
Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Religion, Public Policy and Social Transformation in Southeast Asia (2013-2016).
Author: Dicky SofjanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Author: Vidhu VermaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019909876X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Until the 1990s, secularism was understood largely as exclusion of religion from the public domain. However, in the last two decades, the world has witnessed the return of religion as a medium and subject of national, regional, and global politics. With such a shift, the previously unquestioned Western values of modernity and secularism find themselves at loggerheads with the increasing assertion of religious identity, which results in difference-based conflicts. This antagonism also gives rise to a vibrant, religiously pluralistic civil society and speaks of a post-secular turn in modern Southeast Asian democracies. Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia tries to understand the rise of religion in modern democracies and how everyday economic, social, and political conditions aid this post-secular phenomenon in Southeast Asia. Setting itself apart from most studies of religion in Southeast Asia through its regional focus, this volume explores the ideas, practices, state responses, and anxieties related to the religious–secular divide in this geopolitical region.
Spirited Politics
Author: Andrew C. WillfordPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The essays in Spirited Politics throw light on predicaments that spring from the intersection of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in contemporary Southeast Asian public life. Covering material from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the contributors explore the calamities and ironies of Southeast Asian identity politics, examining the ways in which religion and politics are made to serve each other.
Modernization and Social Change: Studies in Modernization, Religion, Social Change and Development in South-East Asia
Author: Hussein Alatas (Syed)Publisher: Sydney : Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Author: Joseph Chinyong LiowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316739198
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic study of how these two forces have interacted to provide powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia, a region where religious identities are as strong as nationalist impulses. At the heart of many religious conflicts in Southeast Asia lies competing conceptions of nation and nationhood, identity and belonging, and loyalty and legitimacy. In this accessible and timely study, Joseph Liow examines the ways in which religious identity nourishes collective consciousness of a people who see themselves as a nation, perhaps even as a constituent part of a nation, but anchored in shared faith. Drawing on case studies from across the region, Liow argues that this serves both as a vital element of identity and a means through which issues of rights and legitimacy are understood.
Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Author: Gary D. BoumaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048133890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world. While reports of the impact of religious diversity on Europe and North America are reasonably well-known, the ways in which Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific are religiously diverse and the ways this diversity has been managed are not. This book addresses this lack of information about one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world. It describes the religious diversity of 27 nations, as large and complex as Indonesia and as small as Tuvalu, outlining the current issues and the basic policy approaches to religious diversity. Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands are portrayed as a living laboratory of various religious blends, with a wide variance of histories and many different approaches to managing religious diversity. While interesting in their own right, a study of these nations provides a wealth of case studies of diversity management – most of them stories of success and inclusion.
Religious Actors and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asia
Author: Jürgen RülandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429557434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Drawing on a rich body of multimethod field research, this book examines the ways in which Indonesian and Philippine religious actors have fostered conflict resolution and under what conditions these efforts have been met with success or limited success. The book addresses two central questions: In what ways, and to what extent, have post-conflict peacebuilding activities of Christian churches contributed to conflict transformation in Mindanao (Philippines) and Maluku (Indonesia)? And to what extent have these church-based efforts been affected by specific economic, political, or social contexts? Based on extensive fieldwork, the study operates with a nested, multi-dimensional, and multi-layered methodological concept which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Major findings are that church-based peace activities do matter, that they have higher approval rates than state projects, and that they have fostered interreligious understanding. Through innovative analysis, this book fills a lacuna in the study of ethno-religious conflicts. Informed by the novel Comparative Area Studies (CAS) approach, this book is strictly comparative, includes in-case and cross-case comparisons, and bridges disciplinary research with Area Studies. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of conflict and peacebuilding studies, interreligious dialogue, Southeast Asian Studies, and Asian Politics.
Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
Author: Amy L. FreedmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935625520
Category : Religion and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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