Religious Offences in Common Law Asia : Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice /: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Li-ann Thio, Jaclyn L Neo.
• Editors: Thio, Li-ann; Neo, Jaclyn L
• Contents: Orthodoxy, Order and Odium: The Enduring Legacy of Religious Penal Clauses in Contemporary Asia Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore and Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore PART IRELIGIOUS PENAL CLAUSES: HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES1. Religious Penal Clauses in Commonwealth Asia: A Brief History Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore2. Apollonian Restraint and Dionysian Impulse: Law, Freedom and Religious Feelings Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore3. Making Islamic Penal Clauses: Translation, Transformation and Transmogrification Arif A Jamal, National University of Singapore4. Between Religious Coexistence and Religious Hierarchy: Divergent Developments in Religious Offence Laws in Common Law Asia Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore PART IIRELIGIOUS PENAL CLAUSES IN CONTEXT: COUNTRY STUDIES IN COMMON LAW ASIA5. Religious Penal Clauses in India Mrinal Satish, National Law School of India University, India6. Forbidden Discourse: Evaluating the Transformation of Colonial-era Religious Penal Offences into Contemporary Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws Syed Ali Raza, Pakistan College of Law, Pakistan7. Bangladesh: Public Law, Religious Freedom and Regulating 'Religious Sentiment' SM Masum Billah, Jagannath University, Bangladesh8. Prosecuting Religious Violence in Sri Lanka Mario Gomez, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka9. Offences against Religion in Malaysia: Navigating the 'Secular' Federal Constitution and the Salience of Islam in the Constitutional Order Dian AH Shah, National University of Singapore10. Religious Offences Penal Clauses and the Singapore Constitutional Order: Secular, Sensible but Sensitive to the Sacred? Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore11. Recalibrating the Scales of Criminal Justice in Brunei Darussalam: Religious Penal Clauses 1905–2018 Ann Black, The University of Queensland, Australia.
• Publisher Details: London : Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (480 pages)
• Subjects: Comparative law; Criminal justice law; Constitutional & administrative law; Law -- Comparative; Law -- Constitutional; Law -- Criminal Law -- General; Law
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781509937301; 1509937307
• Related ISBNs: 9781509937295
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