Religious diversity and civil society
Subtitle: a comparative analysis
By: edited by Bryan S. Turner
Contributors: Muslim Religious Council of Singapore
Publisher: Bardwell Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781905622115
Subjects: Religion and sociology; Congresses; Religious pluralism
Notes: "The majority of these chapters were originally presented at a conference on Religion in Industrial Society, which was organized by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) in August 2006"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bryan S. Turner; title: The challenge to religious revitalization and religious diversity to social cohesion in secular societies / Gary D. Bouma; title: Citizenship and its discontents : public religion, civic identities / Amyn B. Sajoo; title: Religious diversity and the liberal consensus / Bryan S. Turner; title: Wall of division or public square? / Li-ann Thio; title: State, religion, and the dynamics of transition : repertoire of violence in post-Suharto Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan; title: British Muslims and the British state / Gabriele Marranci; title: Education and social cohesion in Malaysia and Indonesia / Julie Chernov Hwang; title: The poetics of religious philanthropy : Buddhist welfarism in Singapore / Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng.