Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia

Joseph A. Camilleri is Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include regional and global governance, the political economy of Asia-Pacific, the role of religion and culture in international affairs, the politics of oil and the Middle East, and security policy.Sven Schottmann is a Research Associate at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia. His main research interests are Muslim social movements in Southeast Asia, as well as the range of intellectual and imaginative encounters between Muslims in different parts of the world.

"This is a welcome addition to the academic debate on the political effects of ethnicity, religion and culture. Edited by Joseph Camilleri and Sven Schottmann, with contributions by eight scholars, it focuses on Southeast Asian countries that have either Muslim majorities or significant Muslim minorities. In their introductory chapter, Camilleri and Schottmann argue that while ethnicity, religion and culture may be politicized to serve the interests of political actors, they may also serve as instruments facilitating dialogue and building harmony." -- Rizal G. Buendia, Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs, Vol 36, Number 3, Dec 2014

• 1. Culture, religion and the Southeast Asian State Part 1: States, discourses and grandes idées 2. Religion and Culture in Southeast Asian regionalism 3. Religious pluralism in Malaysia: Can there be Dialogue? 4. Paving the Ground? Malaysia’s democratic prospects and the Mahathir government’s islamic discourse 5. Turning conservative Muslims into ‘good citizens’: New allies in the management of islam in Singapore after 9/11 Part 2: Conflict and reconciliation 6. Managing cultural diversity and conflict: The Malaysian experience 7. From colonialist to infidel: Framing the enemy in southern thailand’s ‘Cosmic war’ 8. Chinese indonesians, kongkow and prabowo: A story of reconciliation in post-nEw Order Indonesia 9. Finding a way forward: The search for reconciliation in the Philippines 10. Devotional Islam and democratic practice: The case of Aceh’s Qanun Jinayat 11. Tools of conflict, levers of cohesion: Culture and religion in Muslim Southeast Asia