عنوان

Re-appraising secular-Islamic politics in Malaysia :

شماره

TLets809843

عنوان اصلي

Re-appraising secular-Islamic politics in Malaysia :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Lim, Regina

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

locating the case for common citizenship

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Birmingham

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

This dissertation analyses the process of de-secularization of the Malaysian state. It identifies the political role of Islam as an important element in explaining how the Malaysian state sustains the language of special ethnic 'rights' to negate the ideal of common citizenship in Malaysia. The historical dominance and constant politicization of Islam reinvents the notion of special citizenship 'rights' for the majority Malay citizens, which has serious impacts upon equal opportunities and fundamental liberties of minority citizens. This process is further buttressed by legal apparatus that separates Syariah jurisdiction from civil courts, leading to unequal public access to justice and public deliberation in favour of reasons grounded in religious doctrine. Drawing on Rawlsian-informed critique of power, the thesis advances previous work on Malaysian democracy to critically assess the role of religion in politics that defends state-sanctioned differential citizenship rights. The condition of pluralism in Malaysia is an important case study for a robust understanding of the value of secularism as a principle of state practices. In doing so the thesis makes the normative claim that religion should not reside within the state where it can be politicized with the cost of justifying differential citizenship in a multi-cultural democratic society.

موضوع مستند نشده

BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc; DS Asia; JQ Political institutions Asia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

University of Birmingham

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Birmingham

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y