Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State. By Tamir Moustafa

Amrita Malhi

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Abstract

Tamir Moustafa’s book is timely and instructive after the apparent collapse of the “New Malaysia” experiment, which, for all its potential, exhibited many of the same characteristics of the old Malaysia it ostensibly replaced. Controversies about race and religion, in particular, continued to emerge at frequent and regular intervals, fueling the production of new coalitions and organizations aimed at driving favored ways of framing the issues that surfaced into the media, often with electoral outcomes in mind...
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)366–368
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Church and State
Volume62
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Apr 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Literary review
  • Tamir Moustafa
  • Constituting Religion

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