Full Description
This volume represents a rich multi-disciplinary contribution to an expanding literature on citizenship, identity, and education in a variety of majority and minority Muslim communities. Each of these essays offer important insights into the various ways one may identify with, and participate in, different societies to which Muslims belong.
Contents
Foreword; H.A.Hellyer Citizenship as Attachment and Obligation; M.S.Merry & J.A.Milligan Islamic Foundations for a Social Contract in non-Muslim Liberal Democracies; A.F.March Demanding Deliberation: Political Liberalism and the Inclusion of Islam; L.Swaine Multiculturalism in the West and Muslim Identity; T.Modood Is Being Muslim a Fact or a Challenge? A Perspective on Muslim Identity, Citizenship and Islamic Education; Y. Kazmi & Rosnani Hashim Dealing with Difference: Religious Education and the Challenge of Democracy in Pakistan; M.J.Nelson Muslim Schools, Social Movements and Democracy in Indonesia; R.W.Hefner Communitarianism, the Singapore Muslim Identity Project, and Islamic Social Studies in Singapore; C.Tan & I.A. Mokhtar The Challenge of Education, Identity and Citizenship for Muslims in a Pluralistic Society: A Case Study of Malaysia; R.Hashim Afterword; A.T.Kuru
