Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific National Case Studies /

• Main Authors: Bouma, Gary D. (Author), Ling, Rodney (Author), Pratt, Douglas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Religion.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Cultural heritage.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Demography.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Sociology, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Cultural Heritage.; Social Policy.

Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world. While reports of the impact of religious diversity on Europe and North America are reasonably well-known, the ways in which Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific are religiously diverse and the ways this diversity has been managed ar...

Table of Contents:

• The Antipodes and Japan
• Australia
• Japan
• New Zealand
• Island Nations of South East Asia
• Brunei Darussalam
• Timor Leste
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Pacific Island Nations
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Caledonia
• Northern Marianas
• Palau
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Integrative Chapters
• Minority Religious Groups and the State
• Religious Competition
• Women and Religious Diversity
• Regional Interfaith Dialogue.