Regulating religion in Asia : norms, modes, and challenges / edited by Jaclyn L. Neo, Arif A. Jamal, Daniel P. S. Goh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neo, Jaclyn L., editor.

Jamal, Arif A., editor.

Goh, Daniel Pei Siong, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and state--Asia--Congresses.

Religion and state.

Religious law and legislation--Asia--Congresses.

Religious law and legislation.

Religion.

Asia--Religion--21st century--Congresses.

Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, in the past, present and future? This volume engages this area of scholarship by examining how law regulates religion, and how religion responds to such regulations. It examines underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and challenges emerging from such regulation. Importantly, this volume will go beyond the conventional enquiries that draw upon the Anglo-European approaches and experiences, and emphasize instead Asian perspectives in order to expand and build upon existing understandings about the complex relationship between law and religion.

Contents:

Regulatory markers / Arif A. Jamal

Conceptualizing the regulation of religion / Jaclyn L. Neo

The role of authority and sanctity in state-religion conflicts / Shai Wozner and Gilad Abiri

Jurisdictional vs. official control : regulating the Buddhist sangha in South and Southeast Asia / Ben Schontal

Defining and regulating religion in early independent Indonesia / Kevin Fogg

Principled pluralism, relational constitutionalism and regulating religion within Singapore's secular democratic model / Thio Li-Ann

Legal regulation of religion in Vietnam / Bui Ngoc Son

Regulating Buddhism in Myanmar : the case of deviant Buddhist sects / Nyi Nyi Kyaw

The bureaucratization of religious education in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Mirjam Kunkler

Managing religious competition in China : case study of regulating social and charitable service provisions by religious organizations / Jianlin Chen and Loveday J. Liu

Regulating religion through administrative law : religious conversion in Malaysia beyond fundamental rights / Matthew Nelson and Dian Shah

Legal pluralism, patronage secularism and the challenge of prophetic Christianity in Singapore / Daniel Goh

Equality in secularism : contemporary debates on social stratification and the Indian constitution / Mohsin Alam

Regulating the state and the hawz a: legal pluralism and the ironies of Shi'i law / Haider Hamoudi.

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ISBN:

9781108235983

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