Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore
Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23590-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23590-8 (ISBN)
Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to religious services have intensified, while there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates.
Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of ‘culture’ and ‘race’ in debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore.
Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of ‘culture’ and ‘race’ in debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore.
Torsten Tschacher is Junior-Professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Histories of a Name: Making the ‘Indian Muslim’
Chapter 3: Alternatives or ‘Sub-communities’? Engaging with Internal Difference
Chapter 4: Dress, Drama, and Divorce: The Clash of Masculinities
Chapter 5: Religion or Culture? Popular Practice and the Perception of Difference
Chapter 6: The Markers of Difference: History, Language, Identity
Chapter 7: The Organisation of Religious Life
Chapter 8: Representing ‘Indian Muslims’: The Politics of Mediation
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 498 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-23590-3 / 1138235903 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-23590-8 / 9781138235908 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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