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Spanning Malaysia’s post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a key theoretical framework, this study outlines how its Christian community delicately and simultaneously defends its religious rights without being construed as anti-Islam in the face of state-led “Islamization”. By primarily focusing on the 1980s to the contemporary period, while considering subnational differences between East and West Malaysia, this study charts the changes in the community’s tactics of resistance and explains why it chose to adopt a non-partisan and non-violent approach despite targeted repression. In outlining the interplay between a minority community’s mobilization and national-level contestation, it focuses especially the role played by the Christian elites. Additionally, it raises key questions that remain relevant in the study of contentious politics: How do minority community in semi-democratic contexts protect their rights? What are their options and constraints for resistance? And how do changes in the political environment mould their strategy and tactics of resistance?

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Author:   Pui Yee Choong
Publisher:   Leiden University Press
Imprint:   Leiden University Press
ISBN:  

9789087284374

ISBN 10:   9087284373
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   29 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents List of abstracts and keywords List of abbreviations List of tables Chapter One: Contextualizing and Theorizing Christian Political Mobilization in Malaysia, Chapter Two: A Competitive Authoritarian Regime, Islamization, and the Christian Community, Chapter Three: Unflinching Principles and Whimpers of Protest, 1980–90, Chapter Four: Learned Submission to Semi-opposition Engagement, 1991–2002, Chapter Five: Seizing Political Opportunities for Mobilization, 2003–7, Chapter Six: From Resisting Repression to Oblique Oppositional Mobilization, 2008–15, Chapter Seven: Stories from the East: Resisting Islamization and Preserving Local Rights, Chapter Eight: Conclusion, Bibliography, Appendix A: Official Letter from Najib Razak to Bishop Moon Hing Ng Proposing a 10-Point Solution Index

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Pui Yee Choong is a senior lecturer with the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at University of Malaya. She has published articles, book chapters and opinion editorials on contemporary Malaysian political and social issues. She was previously the history and regional studies programme coordinator at the Penang Institute and a senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

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