Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine
both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these
dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources
for activists to advance contending visions for their states and
societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion
examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed
the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law,
politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive
primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the
court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes
the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of
courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book
documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles,
which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the
links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and
political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the
confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is
also available as Open Access.
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