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Law, Religion, and Constitutionalism in Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

Andrew HARDING
Andrew HARDING*
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National University of Singapore, Singaporelawajh@nus.edu.sg
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Asian Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 2018 , pp. 227 - 232
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Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

References

1. As cited in Bernard Harrison, ‘Review essay: Blushing intellectuals’ (2008) 14(1) Israel Affairs 135, 135.

2. Tom Allard and Jessica Damiana, ‘Indonesian court recognizes native religions in landmark ruling’ (Reuters, 7 November 2017) <www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-religion/indonesian-court-recognizes-native-religions-in-landmark-ruling-idUSKBN1D71J2> accessed 25 January 2018.

3. Arif Jamal, ‘Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia: Five ‘C’s for Reflection’, this Special Issue.

4. Matthew Nelson, ‘Indian Basic Structure Jurisprudence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Reconfiguring the Constitutional Politics of Religion’, this Special Issue.

5. Ameya Balsekar, ‘Negotiating Diversity in India’s Constitutional Order’ (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9-10 November 2017).

6. Eugénie Mérieau, ‘Buddhist Constitutionalism in Thailand: When Rājadhammā Supersedes the Constitution’, this Special Issue.

7. Dian AH Shah, ‘Religion, Child Conversions and Custody Battles in Malaysia’, (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9-10 November 2017). See also, Shah, Dian AH, ‘Religion, conversions, and custody: battles in the Malaysian appellate courts’ in Andrew Harding and Dian AH Shah (eds), Law and Society in Malaysia: Pluralism, Religion, and Ethnicity (Routledge 2018) 145 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8. Rehan Abeyratne, ‘Privileging the Powerful: Religion and Constitutional Law in India’, this Special Issue.

9. Shah, Dian AH, Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka (CUP 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10. Schonthal, Benjamin, Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka (CUP 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11. See (n 2).

12. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, ‘Religion of the State or Religion of the Nation? Religion and Textual and Contextual Constitutionalism in Buddhist Myanmar (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9–10 November 2017).

13. Alfitri, ‘Religion and Constitutional Practices in Indonesia: How Far Should the State Intervene the Administration of Islam?’, this Special Issue.

14. Jaclyn Neo and Arif Jamal, ‘Constitutional Politics and the Legal-Political Conceptualization of Religion as Control in Singapore’ (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9–10 November 2017).

15. Pham Thi Thanh Huyen, ‘Bani (Bàni) in Religious Policies of the Vietnam Government: Perspectives and Reality’ (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9-10 November 2017).

16. Nyi Nyi Kyaw (n 10).

17. Shamsul Falaah, ‘Islamic Constitutionalism in the Maldives: Islamic Constitutional Borrowing, Status, and Interpretation’ (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9-10 November 2017).

18. Raphael Pangalangan, ‘Relative Impermeability of the Wall of Separation: An Uphill Battle for Marriage Equality in the Philippines’, this Special Issue.

19. Schonthal (n 10).

20. Gehan Gunatilleke, ‘The Constitutional Practice of Ethno-religious Violence in Sri Lanka’, this Special Issue.

21. Shamshad Pasarlay, ‘Constitutional Incrementalism in a Religiously Divided Society: The Case of Afghanistan’, this Special Issue.

22. Glenn, H Patrick, Legal Traditions of the World (2nd edn, OUP 2004)Google Scholar, chs 2, 10.

23. Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur v Menteri Dalam Negeri [2010] 2 Malayan Law Journal 78 (High Court); Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur v Menteri Dalam Negeri & Ors [2014] 4 Malayan Law Journal 765 (Federal Court).

24. See for eg Ayesha Wijayalath, ‘Constitutional Contestation of Religion in Sri Lanka’ (Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia Conference, Colombo, 9-10 November 2017); Mérieau (n 6); Shah (n 7); Gunatilleke (n 20).

25. Menteri Dalam Negeri & Others v Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur [2013] 6 Malayan Law Journal 468, 490, 493, 495 (Court of Appeal).