Introduction: secularism, religion, and democracy : hanging landscapes / Vidhu Verma Problems of representation : Buddha Dhamma , politics, and nation states / Timothy Fitzgerald Ambivalence, accommodation, antipathy, and anxiety : religion and Singapore’s secular democratic order / Thio Li-ann Political Islam and democracy in Malaysia / Kamarulnizam Abdullah The secular and the religious : secularization and Shariatization in Indonesia / Syafiq Hasyim Religious minorities in Southeast Asia : the Ahmadiyah and why tolerance matters / Amy L. Freedman Piety, purity, and nationalism : the convergence of nation and Islam in contemporary Indonesia / Mary E. McCoy Protecting the Sāsana through law : radical Buddhism and religious freedom in transitional Myanmar / Iselin Frydenlund Secularism and ethno-religious nationalist hegemony in Malaysia / Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Zairil Khir Johari |