The Politics of Multiculturalism
Title | The Politics of Multiculturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Hefner |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2001-08-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0824864964 |
Few challenges to the modern dream of democratic citizenship appear greater than the presence of severe ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions in society. With their diverse religions and ethnic communities, the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia have grappled with this problem since achieving independence after World War II. Each country has on occasion been torn by violence over the proper terms for accommodating pluralism. Until the Asian economic crisis of 1997, however, these nations also enjoyed one of the most sustained economic expansions the non-Western world has ever seen. This timely volume brings together fifteen leading specialists of the region to consider the impact of two generations of nation-building and market-making on pluralism and citizenship in these deeply divided Asian societies. Examining the new face of pluralism from the perspective of markets, politics, gender, and religion, the studies show that each country has developed a strikingly different response to the challenges of citizenship and diversity. The contributors, most of whom come Southeast Asia, pay particular attention to the tension between state and societal approaches to citizenship. They suggest that the achievement of an effectively participatory public sphere in these countries will depend not only on the presence of an independent "civil society," but on a synergy of state and society that nurtures a public culture capable of mediating ethnic, religious, and gender divides. The Politics of Multiculturalism will be of special interest to students of Southeast Asian history and society, anthropologists grappling with questions of citizenship and culture, political scientists studying democracy across cultures, and all readers concerned with the prospects for civility and tolerance in a multicultural world.
Law and Society in Malaysia
Title | Law and Society in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Harding |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2018-01-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351357654 |
This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary examination of law and legal institutions in Malaysia. It examines legal issues from historical, social, and political perspectives, and discusses the role of law in relation to Malaysian multiculturalism, religion, politics, and society. It shows how the Malaysian legal system is at the heart of debates about how to deal with the country's problems, which include ethnic and religious divisions, uneven and unsustainable development, and political authoritarianism; and it argues that the Malaysian legal system has much to teach other plural polities, nations within the common law tradition, and federal states.
The Politics of Multiculturalism
Title | The Politics of Multiculturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Hefner |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001-08-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780824824877 |
Few challenges to the modern dream of democratic citizenship appear greater than the presence of severe ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions in society. With their diverse religions and ethnic communities, the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia have grappled with this problem since achieving independence after World War II. Each country has on occasion been torn by violence over the proper terms for accommodating pluralism. Until the Asian economic crisis of 1997, however, these nations also enjoyed one of the most sustained economic expansions the non-Western world has ever seen. This timely volume brings together fifteen leading specialists of the region to consider the impact of two generations of nation-building and market-making on pluralism and citizenship in these deeply divided Asian societies. Examining the new face of pluralism from the perspective of markets, politics, gender, and religion, the studies show that each country has developed a strikingly different response to the challenges of citizenship and diversity. The contributors, most of whom come Southeast Asia, pay particular attention to the tension between state and societal approaches to citizenship. They suggest that the achievement of an effectively participatory public sphere in these countries will depend not only on the presence of an independent "civil society," but on a synergy of state and society that nurtures a public culture capable of mediating ethnic, religious, and gender divides. The Politics of Multiculturalism will be of special interest to students of Southeast Asian history and society, anthropologists grappling with questions of citizenship and culture, political scientists studying democracy across cultures, and all readers concerned with the prospects for civility and tolerance in a multicultural world.
Contributions to Asian studies
Title | Contributions to Asian studies PDF eBook |
Author | Judith A. Nagata |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1975-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789004042452 |
Pluralism in Malaysia
Title | Pluralism in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Nagata |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1975-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004643753 |
Cultural Pluralism in Malaysia
Title | Cultural Pluralism in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Malaysia |
ISBN |
Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges
Title | Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges PDF eBook |
Author | Mohammed Hashas |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2021-03-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3030660893 |
This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.