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0000-0001-8172-3849
Current Organisations
University of Newcastle Australia
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Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2023
Publisher: Index Journal
Date: 2020
Publisher: University of Southern Queensland Law, Religion, and Heritage Research Program Team
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.55803/B597P
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
Date: 05-11-2020
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 06-12-2022
DOI: 10.1558/JASR.19233
Abstract: The turn to ‘everyday religion’ has disrupted the so-called ‘Muslim problem’, suggesting modes of multiculturalism located not in abstract principles of citizenship but grounded in the concrete practices of local communities. In this article, however, I offer two critiques of the literature on everyday religion in Australia. First, the literature has limited itself to discursive methodologies, largely ignoring material aspects of the everyday. Second, I show how studies of everyday religion assume multiculturalism’s location in a given public space. Drawing on ethnography from the Shia Muslim community of Sydney, I show how Shia practices of visual pilgrimage leverage an understanding of complex space that transforms everyday experience. I argue that allowing for ersity requires not merely an attentiveness to different discourses in the public sphere it requires an allowance for difference at a deeper level, where everyday religion can generate complex alternative experiences of space itself.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1017/ASJCL.2015.5
Abstract: The so-called crisis of human rights requires a precise diagnosis. Through a theoretical discussion of human rights and legal pluralism in the context of the freedom of religion in Malaysia, this paper suggests that the crisis ought to be understood as something vital to the character of rights. Crisis is not tangential to the human rights project: rights are political objects engendering political responses. Beginning with an excursion into legal positivism and liberalism, the paper argues that analyses of rights based on abstraction and presumptions of homogeneity are confounded in contexts of contested plurality. Secondly, legal pluralism is raised as a more suitable framework for rights. Finally, Augustine and Schmitt offer some clues as to how the political status of human rights might be properly acknowledged. The prominent Malaysian case of Lina Joy provides an ongoing commentary on the dangers of orcing human rights from this essential political character.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United States of America
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