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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “johan saravanamuttu”
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  • Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Johan Saravanamuttu ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    Southeast Asia manifests some of the most interesting, non-violent as well as conflictual elements of Islamic social and political life in the world. This book examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has greatly impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and discursive development. It addresses the majority and minority situations of Muslims within both ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada

    Culture, Politics, and Self

    by Nurjehan Aziz ...
    This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? What relation does it bear to historical, cultural, and ethnic identities? Is a total agnostic or an atheist a Muslim? Is a person who disavows being a Muslim still a Muslim? How do Muslims cope ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy

    Domestic Weakness and the Dilemma of Dual Identity

    by Rizal Sukma ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Politics in Malaysia

    The Malay Dimension

    Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community.In particular, the book explains why changes in patterns of political mobilization and the rhetoric of the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia

    From Soil to God

    by Chris Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. For almost a year, militias waged a brutal religious war which claimed the lives of almost four thousand ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Islam and Nation

    Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia

    by Edward Aspinall ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement.Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia

    by Zachary Abuza ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.Indonesia is a country long known for its diversity and tolerant brand of Islam. However, since the fall of Suharto, a more intolerant form of Islam has been growing, one whose adherents have carried out terrorist attacks, waged sectarian war, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Sexuality in Muslim Contexts

    Restrictions and Resistance

    Edited by Anissa Helie, Homa Hoodfar ...
    This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Religious Pluralism in Indonesia

    Threats and Opportunities for Democracy

    Edited by Chiara Formichi ...
    Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
    In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse religious practice. The essays in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia explore how the state, civil society groups, and individual Indonesians have experienced the attempted integration of minority and majority religious practices and faiths across ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Passive Revolution

    Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism

    by Cihan Tuğal ...
    Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience.In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

    by Anver Emon, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Zakia Salime, Malika Zeghal, Clark Lombardi, Connie J. Cannon, Ahmet T. Kuru, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Dorothea E. Schulz, Michael G. Peletz ...
    Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Politics in Indonesia

    Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance

    by Douglas E. Ramage ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Politics in Indonesia describes the attitudes, aspirations and frustrations of the key players in Indonesian politics as they struggle to shape the future. The book focuses on the role of political Islam; Douglas E. Ramage shows that the state has been remarkably successful in maintaining secular political institutions in a predominantly Muslim society. He analyses the way in which political ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD