Neofundamentalist Thought, Dakwah, and Religious Pluralism among Muslims in Singapore
- Author
- Mohamed Imran bin Mohamed Taib National University of Singapore
Abstract
Since the mid 1970s, Muslim societies have seen the emergence and spread of a new type of religious orientation, ushered in by various socio-political factors shaping the postcolonial world on the brink of globalisation. This religious orientation, hereby termed ‘neo-fundamentalism’ (Rahman, 1981; Roy, 2004), has since occupied the religious imagination of many Muslims and dominates discourses and institutions within the Muslim world.