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This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’ within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

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Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania in order to seek answers to this pressing normative, conceptual and policy issue. Key FeaturesShowcases high level scholarship from around the world – a truly intercontinental volume that disrupts the previous dominance of Euro- and West-centric viewpoints and analysesBrings together scholars from political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and lawDistinguishes secularism from atheism and democracy (or authoritarianism) Explores alternative conceptions of the secular arising from the search for a civic basis of national unity or from a religious sense of nationhoodCase studies cover Britain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Israel, as well as several comparative European studiesContributorsRochana Bajpai, SOAS, UK Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, UKMarie Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyGurpreet Mahajan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaHaldun GülalpZawawi Ibrahim, University Brunei Darussalam, BruneiGeoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales, Australia Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, UKBhikhu Parekh, House of Lords and University of Hull, UKTariq Ramadan, University of Oxford, UKAlfred Stepan, Columbia University, USAAnna Triandafyllidou, EUI, Italy

Church and state. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Secularism. --- Asia --- Oceania --- Religious life and customs.