Religious Offences in Common Law Asia

Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice

Li-Ann Thio, Dr Jaclyn L Neo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2022
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-4603-7 (ISBN)

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This book provides in-depth comparative analysis of how religious penal clauses have been developed and employed within Asian common law states, and the impact of such developments on constitutional rights. By examining the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of religious offences as well as interrogating the nature and impact of religious penal clauses within the region, it contributes to the broader dialogue in relation to religious penal clauses globally, whether in countries which practise forms of secular or religious constitutionalism. Asian practice is significant in this respect, given the centrality of religion to social life and indeed, in some jurisdictions, to constitutional or national identity.

Providing rigorous studies of common law jurisdictions that have adopted similar provisions in their penal code, the contributors provide an original examination and analysis of the use and development of these religious clauses in their respective jurisdictions. They draw upon their insights into the background sociopolitical and constitutional contexts to consider how the inter-relationship of religion and state may determine the rationale and scope of religious offences. These country-by-country chapters inform the conceptual examination of religious views and sentiments as a basis for criminality and the forms of ‘harm’ that attract legal safeguards. Several chapters examine these questions from a historical and comparative perspective, considering the underlying bases and scope, as well as evolving objectives of these provisions. Through these examinations, the book critically interrogates the legacy of colonialism on the criminal law and constitutional practice of various Asian states.

Li-ann Thio is Provost Chair Professor and Jaclyn L Neo is Associate Professor, both at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.

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 I
RELIGIOUS PENAL CLAUSES: HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Religious Penal Clauses in Commonwealth Asia: A Brief History
Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore
2. Apollonian Restraint and Dionysian Impulse: Law, Freedom and Religious Feelings
Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore
3. Making Islamic Penal Clauses: Translation, Transformation and Transmogrification
Arif A Jamal, National University of Singapore
4. Between Religious Coexistence and Religious Hierarchy: Divergent Developments in Religious Offence Laws in Common Law Asia
Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore

PART II
RELIGIOUS PENAL CLAUSES IN CONTEXT: COUNTRY STUDIES IN COMMON LAW ASIA
5. Religious Penal Clauses in India
Mrinal Satish, National Law School of India University, India
6. Forbidden Discourse: Evaluating the Transformation of Colonial-era Religious Penal Offences into Contemporary Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
Syed Ali Raza, Pakistan College of Law, Pakistan
7. Bangladesh: Public Law, Religious Freedom and Regulating ‘Religious Sentiment’
SM Masum Billah, Jagannath University, Bangladesh
8. Prosecuting Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
Mario Gomez, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka
9. 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 Singapore
10. Religious Offences Penal Clauses and the Singapore Constitutional Order: Secular, Sensible but Sensitive to the Sacred?
Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore
11. Recalibrating the Scales of Criminal Justice in Brunei Darussalam: Religious Penal Clauses 1905–2018
Ann Black, The University of Queensland, Australia

Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Constitutionalism in Asia
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	1-5099-4603-9 / 1509946039
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-4603-7 / 9781509946037
Zustand	Neuware