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Blasphemy, Islam and the State

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Blasphemy, Islam and the State

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Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia

Blasphemy, Islam and the State

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Blasphemy, Islam and the State book

Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia
ByStewart Fenwick
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 14 October 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315527697
Pages 222
eBook ISBN 9781315527697
Subjects Law
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Fenwick, S. (2016). Blasphemy, Islam and the State: Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315527697

ABSTRACT

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world’s largest democracy after India and the United States.  It argues that enforcement of Islamic principles by the state is inconsistent with religious diversity and the country’s liberal constitution.  The book thus contributes to understanding the role of religion in the development of democracy in the world’s largest Muslim nation. A key objective is to test the argument that Rawls’ thinking about public reason cannot apply to the case of Indonesia, and Muslim states more broadly. The book therefore contributes to emerging scholarship that considers Rawls in a Muslim context. In addition to examining public reason in detail and considering critiques of the concept, the work highlights the fact that the theory was created to deal with value pluralism and is therefore relevant in any religious setting, including an Islamic one. In doing so, it emphasises that Islam is multifaceted and demonstrates the difficulties, and negative consequences, of integrating faith and law in a liberal state.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Islam and pluralism

chapter 2|27 pages

Rawls and the challenge of faith

chapter 3|32 pages

Faith and freedom in Indonesian law

chapter 4|31 pages

MUI – The institutionalising of Indonesian Islam

chapter 5|30 pages

Case Study Part 1 – The language of devotion

chapter 6|28 pages

Case Study Part 2 – Innovation on trial

chapter 7|20 pages

Islam, public reason and the state

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