Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges

Cambridge University Press, 3/28/2019
EAN 9781108416177, ISBN10: 1108416179

Hardcover, 340 pages, 23.6 x 22.4 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

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.

lntroduction
regulating religion in Asia
Part I. Theorizing Regulation
1. Regulatory markers Arif A. Jamal
2. Conceptualizing the regulation of religion Jaclyn L. Neo
3. The role of authority and sanctity in state-religion conflicts Shai Wozner and Gilad Abiri
4. Jurisdictional vs. official control
regulating the Buddhist Saá¹…gha South and Southeast Asia Ben Schontal
5. Defining and regulating religion in early independent Indonesia Kevin Fogg
Part II. Regulating Religion
State Practice and Legal Norms
6. Principled pluralism, relational constitutionalism and regulating religion within Singapore's secular democratic model Thio Li-ann
7. Legal regulation of religion in Vietnam Bui Ngoc Son
8. Regulating Buddhism in Myanmar
the case of deviant Buddhist sects Nyi Nyi Kyaw
9. The bureaucratization of religious education in the Islamic Republic of Iran Mirjam Künkler
10. Managing religious competition in China
case study of regulating social and charitable service provisions by religious organizations Jianlin Chen and Loveday J. Liu
Part III. Challenges to State Regulation
11. Regulating religion through administrative law
religious conversion in Malaysia beyond fundamental rights Matthew Nelson and Dian Shah
12. Legal pluralism, patronage secularism and the challenge of prophetic Christianity in Singapore Daniel Goh
13. Equality in secularism
contemporary debates on social stratification and the Indian constitution Mohsin Alam
14. Regulating the state and the Hawza
legal pluralism and the ironies of Shi'i law Haider Hamoudi.