书目名称 | The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life |
副标题 | A Study of Bureaucra |
编辑 | Maznah Mohamad |
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概述 | Examines the extent to which a divine bureaucracy had refashioned Malay and Malaysian society into a post-secular state.Highlights how an Islamic state within the modern state has reshaped the way pol |
丛书名称 | Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia |
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描述 | This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. It elaborates on how elements of theology, sacred space, resources, and their interactivity with secular instruments such as legislative, electoral, and new social technological platforms are all instrumentally employed to consolidate a divine bureaucracy. The book makes the point that religious social movements and political parties are only few of the important agents of Islamisation in society. The other is the modern and secular state structure itself. Weber’s legal rational bureaucracy or Hegel’s ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality. In this instance an Islamic bureaucracy is advantageously situated not only within an ambit of modernity and therefore legality, but divinity and therefore sacrality as well. This positioning gives religious state agents more salience than any other form of bureaucracy leading to their unquestioned authorityin the current contexts of societies with Muslim majority rule. One of the requisites of this condition is the homogenisation of Islam followed by ring-fencing of its constituents. The latter can invol |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Islamic state in a modern state; Constitution of a modern Syariah judiciary; Notion of a divine bureau |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2093-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-15-2095-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-15-2093-8Series ISSN 2661-8354 Series E-ISSN 2661-8362 |
issn_series | 2661-8354 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |