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The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life Maznah Mohamad

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life By Maznah Mohamad

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life by Maznah Mohamad


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This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. Webers legal rational bureaucracy or Hegels ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality.

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life Summary

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life: A Study of Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia by Maznah Mohamad

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. It elaborates on how elements of theology, sacred space, resources, and their interactivity with secular instruments such as legislative, electoral, and new social technological platforms are all instrumentally employed to consolidate a divine bureaucracy. The book makes the point that religious social movements and political parties are only few of the important agents of Islamisation in society. The other is the modern and secular state structure itself. Webers legal rational bureaucracy or Hegels ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality. In this instance an Islamic bureaucracy is advantageously situated not only within an ambit of modernity and therefore legality, but divinity and therefore sacrality as well. This positioning gives religious state agents more salience than any other form of bureaucracy leading to their unquestioned authorityin the current contexts of societies with Muslim majority rule. One of the requisites of this condition is the homogenisation of Islam followed by ring-fencing of its constituents. The latter can involve contestations with women, other genders, secular Muslims, non-Muslims as well as dissenting Muslims with their differing truthful Islams.

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life Reviews

Maznah Mohamads The Divine Bureaucracy is a riveting read, delving into issues that many a Malaysian Muslim would hesitate to comment on publicly. ... the merits of Maznahs well-grounded assertion ... as far as Malaysia is concerned. (Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 38 (3), November, 2023)

About Maznah Mohamad

Maznah Mohamad is an Associate Professor with joint-affiliation at the Department of Malay Studies and the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. She joined NUS in 2006. Prior to this she was an Associate Professor of Development Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. She teaches courses on Gender in Malay Societies, Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia and Malaysian politics. Her areas of research include the Muslim family, Islamic law and bureaucracy and Malaysian electoral politics. Her books include Feminism and the Womens Movement in Malaysia (2006), Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness (co-edited, 2011), and Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia (co-edited, 2013). Her recent publications include articles on matrilineal land rights and Islam in JMBRAS (2016), Malay-Islamic colonial law in Kajian Malaysia (2016), Islamic finance and business in Pacific Affairs (2015) and the monetisation of Malaysian politics in Journal of Contemporary Asia (2019).

Table of Contents

1.Bureaucratisation and Disenchantment.- 2.Origins of the Divine Bureaucracy.- 3.Features of the Divine Bureaucracy.- 4.Standardising Faith.- 5.Ring-Fencing Constituents.- 6.Perfecting Family.- 7.Purifying Money.- 8.The Power of Disenchantment.

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NPB9789811520921
9789811520921
9811520925
The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life: A Study of Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia by Maznah Mohamad
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Hardback
Springer Verlag, Singapore
2020-03-03
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