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Liberalism and the Quest for Islamic Identity in the Philippines
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 1991
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 219
- ISBN
- 9780893860288
- Availability
- Out of print
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About the book
How the liberal state and the Moro search for an Islamic political identity have failed to meet, by a Filipino political scientist.
Kenneth E. Bauzon's study looks at how liberalism, as it grew in the West, has shaped the way the Muslims of the Philippines are studied and governed. He starts with the social sciences. He argues that the positivist and behaviourist methods that came out of the Enlightenment are mechanistic and reductive. He then uses the idea of the ummah, the Muslim community, to explain the "Moro Problem", while warning against blaming the conflict on religion.
The book has 10 chapters and a foreword by the historian Cesar Adib Majul, who calls it the first full treatment of the Islamic world view as a way to explain the Muslim movement. It was published in 1991 in Manila by Ateneo de Manila University Press and in Durham, North Carolina, by the Acorn Press, with Duke University's Islamic and Arabian Development Studies.
George Weightman, reviewing it in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies in 1994, found the sources thorough but the book repetitive, and said readers need some grounding in philosophy, the sociology of knowledge and Islam.
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