State and secularism : perspectives from Asia / editors, Michael Heng Siam-Heng, Ten Chin Liew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An East Asian perspective on religion and secularism / Prasenjit Duara -- Secularism and its limits / Ten Chin Liew -- The secular state and its challenges / Michael Heng Siam-Heng -- Rawlsian liberalism, secularism, and the call for cosmopolitanism / Saranindranath Tagore -- The Machiavellian problem and liberal secularism / Benjamin Wong -- Secularism, critical conviction and the 21st century project of the European Union: some thoughts from Asia / Barnard Turner -- Secular religiosity in Chinese politics: a Confucian perspective / Tan Sor Hoon -- State and secularism: the French Laïcité system / Anne-Cécile Robert, Henri Pen̋a-Ruiz -- Secularism and the constitution: striking the right balance / Kevin Y. L. Tan -- Secularism and Vaidic worldview / Swami Agnivesh -- Secularism in India -- a minority perspective / Aasghar Ali Engineer -- The Pakistan state project: a secular critique / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- State and secularism in Bangladesh / Habibul Haque Khondker -- The state, Egyptian intellectuals, intolerance and religious discourse / Mona Abaza -- Perda, fatwa and the challenge to secular citizenship in Indonesia / Robertus Robet -- Malaysia: multicultural society, Islamic state, or what? / Johan Saravanamuttu -- Religious revival and the emerging secularism in China / Zhao Litao -- State and religion in Turkey: which secularism? / Recep Şentürk -- Pragmatic secularism, civil religion, and political legitimacy in Singapore / Kenneth Paul Tan. Tan.