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STATE AND SECULARISM
Perspectives from Asia


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
Michael Siam-Heng Heng and Chin Liew Ten
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An East Asian Perspective on Religion and Secularism
PRASENJIT DUARA
1
Secularism and Its Limits
TEN CHIN LIEW
7
The Secular State and Its Challenges
MICHAEL SIAM-HENG HENG
23
Rawlsian Liberalism, Secularism, and the Call for Cosmopolitanism
SARANINDRANATH TAGORE
37
The Machiavellian Problem and Liberal Secularism
BENJAMIN WONG
61
Secularism, Critical Conviction and the 21st Century Project of the European Union: Some Thoughts from Asia
BARNARD TURNER
77
Secular Religiosity in Chinese Politics: A Confucian Perspective
SOR HOON TAN
95
State and Secularism, the French Laïcité System
ANNE-CÉCILE ROBERT and HENRI PEÑA-RUIZ
123
Secularism and the Constitution: Striking the Right Balance
KEVIN Y. L. TAN
137
Secularism and Vaidic Worldview
SWAMI AGNIVESH
155
Secularism in India — A Minority Perspective
ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
169
The Pakistan Islamic State Project: A Secular Critique
ISHTIAQ AHMED
185
State and Secularism in Bangladesh
HABIBUL HAQUE KHONDKER
213
The State, Egyptian Intellectuals, Intolerance and Religious Discourse
MONA ABAZA
235
Perda, Fatwa and the Challenge to Secular Citizenship in Indonesia
ROBERTUS ROBET
263
Malaysia: Multicultural Society, Islamic State, or What?
JOHAN SARAVANAMUTTU
279
Religious Revival and the Emerging Secularism in China
LITAO ZHAO
301
State and Religion in Turkey: Which Secularism?
RECEP ŞENTÜRK
319
Pragmatic Secularism, Civil Religion, and Political Legitimacy in Singapore
KENNETH PAUL TAN
339
BACK MATTER
Michael Siam-Heng Heng and Chin Liew Ten
359
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