Modernity, State-Led Islamisation And The Non-Muslim Response : A Case Study Of Christians In Peninsular Malaysia

Chong , Eu Choong (2010) Modernity, State-Led Islamisation And The Non-Muslim Response : A Case Study Of Christians In Peninsular Malaysia. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Abstract

For a better part of the 20th century, scholars who studied religion held the opinion that religion would gradually lose its public significance in the face of modernisation. However, events in the past few decades have proved otherwise. From the Iranian Revolution to the role of Catholicism in political conflicts throughout Latin America in the 1980 have patently demonstrated religion still plays an important role in the public sphere. This thesis takes the position that religion still remains an important precinct in the public life and politics of contemporary Southeast Asian societies. Using the case of Malaysia,

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) > H1-99 Social sciences (General)
Divisions:	Pusat Pengajian Sains Kemasyarakatan (School of Social Sciences) > Thesis
Depositing User:	ASM Ab Shukor Mustapa
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2018 07:32
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2019 05:26
URI:	http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/41731

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