TY - BOOK ID - 80823921 TI - Constituting religion : Islam, liberal rights, and the Malaysian state PY - 2018 SN - 9781108539296 9781108423946 9781108439176 1108539297 1108334075 1108334431 1108423949 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Muslims KW - Civil rights KW - Constitutional law KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80823921 AB - Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access. ER -