Blasphemy, Islam and the State

Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID19945272
AuthorsStewart Fenwick (Family Court of Australia, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-10-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBlasphemy, Islam and the State (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315527697
OpenAlexW2901361136
ISBN9781315527697
Open LibraryOL33569543M
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world’s largest democracy after India and the United States. It argues that enforcement of Islamic principles by the state is inconsistent with religious diversity and the country’s liberal constitution. The book thus contributes to understanding the role of religion in the development of democracy in the world’s largest Muslim nation. A key objective is to test the argument that Rawls’ thinking about public reason cannot apply to the case of Indonesia, and Muslim states more broadly. The book therefore contributes to emerging scholarship that considers Rawls in a Muslim context. In addition to examining public reason in detail and considering critiques of the concept, the work highlights the fact that the theory was created to deal with value pluralism and is therefore relevant in any religious setting, including an Islamic one. In doing so, it emphasises that Islam is multifaceted and demonstrates the difficulties, and negative consequences, of integrating faith and law in a liberal state

Blasphemy · Islam · Political science · Programming language · State (computer science) · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Freedom of religion · Indonesia · Islam and state · john Rawls (1921-2002) · LAW · Liberalism · Religious pluralism

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