This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing both their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and its strategies of "managing" cultural and religious pluralism.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2011-05-06
Language: English
Number of Pages: 140
Edition: 1
Volume: 26
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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