Muslims in Singapore

This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing both their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and its strategies of "managing" cultural and religious pluralism.

Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and is co-author of Muslims as Minorities: History and Social Realities of Muslims in Singapore (2009, with Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied). Alexius A. Pereira is Assistant Professor of the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, and is the author of State Collaboration and Development Strategies in China (also published by Routledge). Bryan S. Turner was Professor of Sociology in the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (2005-9), and the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA, and is currently Professor in the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney Australia. He most recently co-edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements 1: Introduction: Muslims in Multicultural Singapore 2: Understanding Social Enclaves 3: The Malay-Muslim Community: A Background 4: Social Distancing: Halal Consciousness and Public Dining 5: Religious or Public Education? The Madrasah Dilemma 6: The Body and Piety: the Hijab and Marriage 7: Conclusion: States, Enclaves and Religion References Index