Norming "moderation'' in an "iconic target'': Public policy and the regulation of religious anxieties in Singapore

• Main Author: TAN, Eugene K. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: civil society; Islam; religion; Singapore; terrorism; Asian Studies; Public Law and Legal Theory; Public Policy; Religion Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/453; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1452/viewcontent/Norming_moderation_in_an_iconic_target.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The proposed research will examine Singapore’s response to terrorism post September 11, in particular the maintenance of a “moderate mainstream” Muslim community as a bulwark against the fraying of harmonious ethnic relations. In light of the global concern—and often paranoia—with diasporic Islam, I...