Since the fall of the Suharto regime, forces pressing for regional autonomy have strengthened in Indonesia, with some people arguing that the country is in danger of disintegrating. This book examines a range of issues connected with decentralization and regional autonomy in Indonesia, especially focusing on various local contexts. The multiple issues that are dealt …
Renoncement et puissance. A voir ces deux termes ainsi reliés l’un à l’autre, on croirait d’abord à une opposition. Et pourtant, en terre de bouddhisme, le moine parti dans la forêt, celui-là même qui incarne le renoncement au monde le plus radical, est aussi tenu pour un ” superhomme “. Ses contemporains lui attribuent des …
Renoncement et puissance: La quête de la sainteté dans la Birmanie contemporaine Read More »
The religious conversion history of the Uighur from ancient times to the 16th century is reflected in the colourful religious scenes along the Silk Road. During the course of history, the Uighur were successively adherents to Shamanism, Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism prior to their mass conversion to Islam in the 16th century. The successive …
WPS 44 History of Uighur Religious Conversions (5th – 16th Centuries) Read More »
Since the 1980s, a widespread view has arisen in the literature that the post-1950 economic successes of Taiwan and the Republic of Korea have been due, in part at least, to the legacy of Japanese colonialism. This paper challenges that view by comparing Japanese economic achievements in both Taiwan and Korea with those of the …
A demographic perspective is relevant to understanding the position of Muslims in today’s world. This paper deals with issues such as the proportion of Muslims who live in countries where Muslims are the great majority of the population (71% live in countries where more than 80% of the population is Muslim); indices of human development, …
WPS 42 A Demographic Perspective on the Muslim World Read More »
Much has been written about the attitude of Islam to family planning and population control. In the past much of this writing took as its starting-point the observation that Muslim countries, and Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries, tended to have high fertility. It was only a small step from this to the argument that high …
A demographic perspective is relevant to understanding the position of Muslims in today’s world. This paper deals with issues such as the proportion of Muslims who live in countries where Muslims are the great majority of the population (71% live in countries where more than 80% of the population is Muslim); indices of human development, …
After having lain dormant for some twenty years during the period 1973 to 1991, the Singaporean film industry is experiencing something of a revival. Films produced since the early 1990s have been resolutely ‘local’ in their portrayals in an effort to ground this emergent cinematic modernity. Only a handful of these films have, however, received …
WPS 40 Slang Images: On the ‘Foreignness’ of Contemporary Singaporean Films Read More »
This publication consists of all presentations, details of question-and-answer sessions and main points and issues arising from the 2004 IPS Intercultural Dialogue Series. The publication hopes to contribute to public awareness and education, and policy and practice, in the interests of cultural understanding, social cohesion and the common good in Singapore.
