Religion and nationalism were once ideologies at odds. Now, they are increasingly bedfellows, with populism often the glue. (The Conversation) — I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to ...

Malaysia cabinet minister Hannah Yeoh won a defamation case in late May against university lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, who ...

Dr. Maznah Mohamad’s book, “The Divine Bureaucracy and ... For Ash’aris, this threatened their existing hegemony over Malaysia’s religious institutions and the conservative Muslim life ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Bernama) -- Malaysia will not tolerate the act of burning any religious book or text including the Quran, Bible and even the Hindu text, as Malaysians value humanity and respect ...

In 2020, the book Rebirth: Reformasi, Resistance and Hope in New Malaysia that was published ... he himself would not sell books that were anti-religion, encouraged terrorism or contained ...

THE DEBATE surrounding the politico-legal character of Malaysia – whether it is a secular or religious (Islamic) state – is both ongoing and complex. This discussion is far from new and is ...

They originate from the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), the Oral ... particularly high in Bangladesh (86%), Tunisia (82%) and Malaysia (80%). (Islam is the official state religion in ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) I hadn't expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a confrontation ... affairs to denote those against the official religion, Sunni Islam. This was followed by ...

I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a confrontation with men who ... agency administering Islamic affairs to denote those against the official religion, Sunni Islam. This was ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a confrontation with men who identified themselves as police in a Kuala Lumpur airport. I arrived in the Muslim-majority ...

I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a confrontation ... and returned home to the United States. As a scholar of religion and politics in comparative perspective, I don ...