TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heng,Michael S.H.
AU  - Ten,C.L.
TI  - State and secularism: perspectives from Asia 
SN  - 9789814282383
AV  - BL2765.A78 S73 2010eb
U1  - 200 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Hackensack] New Jersey
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Asia
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Islam and secularism
KW  - Islam et laïcité
KW  - Asie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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