| Description |
1 online resource (x, 364 pages) |
| Contents |
An East Asian perspective on religion and secularism / Prasenjit Duara -- Secularism and its limits / Ten Chin Liew -- The secular state and its challenges / Michael Heng Siam-Heng) -- Rawlsian liberalism, secularism, and the call for cosmopolitanism / Saranindranath Tagore -- The Machiavellian problem and liberal secularism / Benjamin Wong -- Secularism, critical conviction and the 21st century project of the European Union: some thoughts from Asia / Barnard Turner -- Secular religiosity in Chinese politics: a Confucian perspective / Tan Sor Hoon -- State and secularism: the French Laïcité system / Anne-Cécile Robert, Henri Pen̋a-Ruiz -- Secularism and the constitution: striking the right balance / Kevin Y.L. Tan -- Secularism and Vaidic worldview / Swami Agnivesh -- Secularism in India -- a minority perspective / Aasghar Ali Engineer -- The Pakistan state project: a secular critique / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- State and secularism in Bangladesh / Habibul Haque Khondker -- The state, Egyptian intellectuals, intolerance and religious discourse / Mona Abaza -- Perda, fatwa and the challenge to secular citizenship in Indonesia / Robertus Robet -- Malaysia: multicultural society, Islamic state, or what? / Johan Saravanamuttu -- Religious revival and the emerging secularism in China / Zhao Litao -- State and religion in Turkey: which secularism? / Recep Şentürk -- Pragmatic secularism, civil religion, and political legitimacy in Singapore / Kenneth Paul Tan |
| Summary |
The concept of a secular state is important in many parts of Asia and how this is resolved has important implications for the social, economic and political development of various Asian countries. Unfortunately, problems of the secular state have all along been studied based on the historical experience of state formation in Europe, with little (or no) input from the Asian perspective. This book will for the very first time, present mainly Asian perspectives, while drawing on Western experience as well. Conceptual issues are discussed together with detailed accounts on how different countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Secularism -- Asia
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Secularism -- Political aspects -- Asia
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Islam and secularism -- Asia
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Islam and secularism
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Secularism
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Secularism -- Political aspects
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heng, Michael S. H., 1948-
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Ten, C. L
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| ISBN |
9789814282383 |
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9814282383 |
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