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Modern Muslim Identities - Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia (Paperback)
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Modern Muslim Identities - Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia (Paperback)
Series: NIAS Monograph Series, No. 119
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This book explores the relationship between the Malaysian state and
its citizens in creating and maintaining fixed identities. It
focuses on new modalities of being Muslim in a modern world. It
develops the concept of 'Islamicity' to make sense of contemporary
modern Islamic religiosity that is applicable to a range of
modernizing Muslim countries. This book explores a central tension
in identity politics - how the state, civil society and people in
general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and
social cohesion but paradoxically their practices in everyday life
often run counter to this. Malaysia is no exception. Here, a
political elite maintains a hegemonic system of control and
cultural dominance but must juggle political pressure from Islamic
and Malay supremacists on the one hand and moderate civil society
groups on the other. The result is a complex interplay of
domination, accommodation and negotiation between the state and its
citizens. At the heart of the study is the conjuncture between
Malay ethnicity and Islamic faith, hence an examination of the
state discourse on 'civilizational Islam', but other areas are also
examined, including the arts as a contested space where artists and
the state vie to shape the nation's imagination. At the theoretical
level, this book is part of a greater narrative about identity
politics. It seeks to reach broader understanding of what Heidegger
calls being-in-the-world, or the way we relate to other people and
places around us. Thus, this book brings a variety of philosophical
theory, anthropological insights and social theory together to
present an interesting, in-depth ethnographic exploration of
contemporary Malay Muslim identity politics.
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