dc.contributor.author | Schottmann, Sven A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-04T04:59:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-04T04:59:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1035-7823 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10357823.2011.602663 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/254979 | |
dc.description.abstract | Unlike his bourgeois economic nationalism or diplomatic posturing on behalf of the developing world, Mahathir Mohamad's encounter with Islam remains a largely understudied aspect of his 22-year rule of Malaysia (1981–2003). There is a marked reluctance to take seriously his pronouncements on Islam and engage with his representations of what being-Muslim should entail in the modern world. This essay takes the view that Islam, in fact, represents a significant component of the former Malaysian prime minister's political repertoire, and that an analysis of what may be described as “Mahathir's Islam” can provide a compelling alternative account of his momentous premiership. It argues that while Mahathir's engagement with Islam was fraught with contradictions and has produced a number of negative consequences that affect Malaysian society as a whole, his discourse also contained the ingredients of what Bellah and Hammond (1980) have famously described as civil religion. Mahathir's public representations of Islam – in particular, his championing of the individually responsible believer and interpretation of the message to the Prophet Muhammad as a this-worldly and pro-active “theology of progress” – can thus provide religious validation to the cosmopolitanism of the street that has helped underwrite the social peace of multi-religious Malaysia. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Asian Studies Association of Australia | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 355 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 372 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Asian Studies Review | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 35 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 220499 | |
dc.title | The pillars of "Mahathir's Islam": Mahathir Mohamad on Being-Muslim in the modern world | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Schottmann, Sven | |