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| Author | : Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce |
| Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9812308652 |
The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multi-functional temple complexes. There has been quite a few books written on the role of the Singapore State but, so far, none has been written on the topic - the relationship between state, society and religion. It will help to fill the missing gap in the scholarly literature on this area. This is also a topic of great significance in many Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, countries and it will serve as an important book for future reference in this area of research and comparative studies.
| Author | : Jonathan Fox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Religion and politics |
| ISBN | : 9781594519215 |
Leading scholars offer new insights into the global intersection of religion and politics, using a wide range of case studies and perspectives.
| Author | : Ahmet T. Kuru |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2009-04-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 052151780X |
Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.
| Author | : J. M. Barbalet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Religion and state |
| ISBN | : |
With a clear statement of the theoretical issues in the debates about secularization and post-secularism,?Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology? considers a number of major case studies? from China, Europe, Singapore and South Asia? in order to understand the rise of public religions in the modern state. By distinguishing between political secularization? the separation of state and religion? and social secularization? the transformation of the everyday practice of religion? this volume offers an integrating framework within which to analyze these different societies.
| Author | : Akbar S. Ahmed |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1983-10-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780521246354 |
This analysis of Muslim unrest is based on an extended case study of northwestern Pakistan. Professor Ahmed examines power, authority, and religious status as the critical intermediary level of society: that of the district or Agency, which was the key unit of administration in British India. Amhed has joined his insights as anthropologist with his experience as a political agent in Waziristan to produce an innovative and detailed work. The book focuses on the emergence of a mullah in Waziristan who challenges the state. A religious leader's challenge of the state is not new; but contemporary Muslim society's widespread concern over these conflicts reveals that the influence of religion in a traditional society undergoing modernization is greater than many scholars have assumed. The author identifies three types of leaders: traditional leaders, usually elders; representatives of the established state authority; and religious functionaries. From this analysis he constructs an 'Islamic district paradigm,' which he uses not only in making sense of contemporary Muslim society, but also in understanding some aspects of the legacy of the colonial encounter.
| Author | : Bryan S. Turner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2011-03-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139496808 |
Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special emphasis on the problems of defining religion and the sacred in the secularisation debate. He explores a range of issues central to current debates: the secularisation thesis itself, the communications revolution, the rise of youth spirituality, feminism, piety and religious revival. Religion and Modern Society contributes to political and ethical controversies through discussions of cosmopolitanism, religion and globalisation. It concludes with a pessimistic analysis of the erosion of the social in modern society and the inability of new religions to provide 'social repair'.
| Author | : Kenneth D. Wald |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2014-03-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1442225556 |
From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at large. Now in its seventh edition, Religion and Politics in the United States includes analyses of the nation's most pressing political matters regarding religious freedom, and the ways in which that essential constitutional freedom situates itself within modern America. The book also explores the ways that religion has affected the orientation of partisan politics in the United States. Through a detailed review of the political attitudes and behaviors of major religious and minority faith traditions, the book establishes that religion continues to be a major part of the American cultural and political milieu while explaining that it must interact with many other factors to influence political outcomes in the United States.
| Author | : Bruce J. Berman |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2013-10-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0774825154 |
Contemporary nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. Secular States and Religious Diversity explores the meaning of secularism and religious freedom in these new contexts. The contributors chart the impact of globalization, the varying forms of secularism in Western states, and the different kinds of relations between states and religious institutions in the historical traditions and contemporary politics of Islamic, Indic, and Chinese societies. They also examine the limitations and dilemmas of governmental responses to religious diversity, and grapple with the question of how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism. This volume brings in perspectives from the non-Western world and engages with viewpoints that might increase states’ capacities to accommodate religious diversity positively.
| Author | : Roland Dannreuther |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0415552451 |
This book examines contemporary developments in Russian politics, how they impact on Russia's Muslim communities, how these communities are helping to shape the Russian state, and what insights this provides to the nature and identity of the Russian state both in its inward and outward projection.
| Author | : Jonathan Fox |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2015-04-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107076749 |
This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008. While both sides were active, the religious side had considerably more success. The book examines how states supported religion as well as how they restricted it.
