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SUMMARY:Policing and Religion: Policing Religion in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Asia
LOCATION:Room 1.308
DESCRIPTION:Following the ideal of the secular state promoted by European i
 mperial powers in Southeast Asia, the modern institution of the police and 
 the modern category of “religion” emerged as mutually exclusive categories.
  Thus the bounded concept of “religion” enabled states to govern religious 
 traditions, inter alia, by relegating certain aspects of “religion” to the 
 private realm. At the same time, one of the central tasks of constabulary f
 orces was to maintain “public order” – a precondition to guarantee religiou
 s freedom in the realm of the public. In this ideal, the police (impartial 
 and public) has been opposed to religion (partial and private). Perhaps as 
 a legacy of this political construction, literature on policing in Southeas
 t Asia still largely ignores its religious undercurrents, and only few scho
 lars interested in the religious traditions of this area have inquired into
  the security forces.\n\nNotably, however, colonial police forces were mann
 ed predominantly by local subjects who were themselves formed by local reli
 gious traditions. Further complicating the picture, particularly during lat
 e colonial rule, were new transnational religious reform movements that dev
 eloped along with anti-colonial movements in the Southeast Asian region: th
 ese all generated suspicion of, and policing by, colonial states while at t
 he same time inspiring spiritual seeking amongst policemen themselves. How,
  in short, have policing and religion in late colonial and postcolonial Asi
 a been informing and influencing each other?\n\nThis panel explores the ten
 sions and entanglements between policing and religion through three or four
  case studies in Southeast Asia, thus exposing their intricate relationship
  and interdependence. Two of these case studies engage the role of religion
  in shaping subjectivities of police officers through historical biographie
 s (Craig Reynolds, Marieke Bloembergen). One paper delineates how the const
 ruction of handbook knowledge on religion is key to the operation of securi
 ty forces in southern Thailand (Ruth Streicher).
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/policing-and-religion-policing-religion-in-late-colonial-and-postcolonial-asia
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