TY  - GEN
T1  - Race, religion, and the 'Indian Muslim' predicament in Singapore
T2  - Routledge studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia ;
A1  - Tschacher, Torsten
LA  - English
PP  - London ; New York
PB  - Routledge
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1011497284
AB  - "Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore's Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to religious services have intensified, while there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates. Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of 'culture' and 'race' in debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore"--
OP  - 242
CN  - DS610.25.E37 T73 2018eb
SN  - 9781315303376
SN  - 131530337X
SN  - 9781315303390
SN  - 1315303396
SN  - 9781138235908
SN  - 1138235903
KW  - East Indians : Singapore.
KW  - Tamil (Indic people) : Singapore.
KW  - Muslims : Singapore.
KW  - Singapore : Race relations.
KW  - Singapore : Religion.
KW  - Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) : Singapour.
KW  - Tamouls : Singapour.
KW  - Musulmans : Singapour.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - East Indians
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religion
KW  - Tamil (Indic people)
KW  - Singapore
ER  -