Islam, Asia, and Modernity: Part 5: Education and Islamic Legal Subjects in Asia

2005

English

(? mins) A three-day conference to explore the changing politics, practices, and representations of Islam in Asia; how these changes are studied, documented, taught, and represented in the academy and the media; and how these practices affect politics, society, and culture in Muslim Asia.

Part 5: Education and Islamic Legal Subjects in Asia - "Public Education and the Reproduction of Religious Intolerance: The Case of Bangladesh" by Imtiaz Ahmed; "Islamic Subjects in school: the end of faith-based initiative?" by Gardner Bovingdon.

Discussant: Kristen Stilt; Chair: Steve Hanson.