Abstract
The social
interactions of Malay Muslims with non-Muslim Malaysians emerged depending on
the circumstances have become the subject of various researchers in the modern
era. The concept of Halal Food, which has been popularized through the
establishment of various religio-bureaucratic institutions, can be considered
as a unique area for the ethno-relations around the food consumption in
Malaysia. In this sense, the relationship of ethno-social and religious
segments structured around the phenomenon of Halal Food conditioned around
deserves to be considered as a research field of Sociology of Religion. This
treaty deals with concisely the phenomenon of Halal Food which draws attention
as one of the salient stages of the socio-political changing process in the
country. This process, as a conscious preference of Malay political elites, has
been the subject of construction which was supposed to guarantee social
existence of Malay Muslims who had been recognized socio-economically as the
underprivileged segment. The phenomenon of Halal Food, brought up through the
various institutions in Malaysia, has not been in the personal initiative of
the Malay Muslims, instead it has already been moved to public arena by the
force of implementation of law. The usage of this phenomenon in technical sense
attracts attention as one of the strong symbolic expressions of
institutionalized Islam. This process work as two dimensions. The first one is
related to demands of Malay Muslims who became the subject of expansion of
higher education and urbanization especially since the late of 1970s and
specially 1980s. On the other hand, it has also functioned as a vehicle to make
the non-Muslim minorities to recognize that Islam is the dominant
religio-cultural aspect of the Malaysian society. As revealed by some researchers,
there is no doubt that the practices during this era not only correspond to
social demands in one side, but also are considered as reflections of
Islamization in political field owing to the internal and external factors.
Keywords: Halal Food, Malay Muslims,
Globalization, Social change.
This paper was presented in the II. International Halal and Healthy Food Congress, 7-10 November, 2013, Konya-Turkey.
See for details:
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/95036154/sociological-approach-phenomenon-halal-food-case-malaysia
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