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Australia, Indonesia, and Egypt? This choice is somewhat personal as I am from Australia—a society which is usually understood as being “secular.” I also have some experience of both Indonesia, as one of our nearest neighbors with its unique form of religion-state relations in the form of the Pancasila, and of Egypt, with its ongoing struggle over the place of religion in the political life of the nation.
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Madigan, P. (2016). Religion and the State: Contexts, Controversies, and Conjectures in Australia, Indonesia, and Egypt. In: Lefebure, L. (eds) Religion, Authority, and the State. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59990-2_2
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