Negotiating Statist Islam: Fatwa and State Policy in Singapore
This article examines how state-linked religious actors negotiate religious demands in a secular authoritarian state. There is a prevalent assumption that such religious actors lack the agency to affect state decisions. I do not seek to challenge that proposition, rather to qualify it by identifying...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341803700103 |