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Challenging the Secular State examines Muslim efforts to incorporate shari’a (religious law) into modern Indonesia’s legal system from the time of independe
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Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.
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The concept of a secular state is important in many parts of Asia and how this is resolved has important implications for the social, economic and political dev
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What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusi
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Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. Wh