Riaz Hassan AM, FASSA

Research

Publications

Books/Monographs

Inside Muslim Minds: Understanding Contemporary Islamic Consciousness, Melbourne University Press 2008

Keragaman Iman: Studi Komparatif Masyarakat Muslim, Jakarta: PT RajaGrafidabPersada (Indonesian translation of Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society, Oxford University Press 2002), 2006

Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia, Ed. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005.

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia, (Co-editor with McAllister, I. and Dowrick, S.), Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society, Oxford University Press, 2002, paper edition, 2003.

Suicide Prevention: The Global Context, co-edited with Robert J. Kosky, Hadis S. Eshkevari, and Robert D. Goldney, London: Plenum Press, 1998.

Suicide Explained: The Australian Experience, Melbourne University Press, 1995.

Islam: Dari Konservatisme Sampai Fundamentalisme, Jakarta, CV Rajawali Press, 1986.

A Way of Dying: Suicide in Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1983.

Ethnicity, Culture and Fertility, Singapore: Chopman Publishers (1980).

Families in Flats: A Study of Low Income Families in Public Housing, Singapore University Press, 1977.

Singapore: Society in Transition, Ed. Oxford University Press, 1976.

Selected Refereed Papers and Research Reports

‘Global Rise of Suicide Terrorism: An Overview’, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 36, Number 2, 2008, pp. 271-291.

‘The Reality of Religious Labels’ (with C. Corkindale and J. Sutherland) Australian Religion Studies Review, 21:2, 2008 (forthcoming)

‘On Being Religious: Patterns of religious Commitment in Muslim Societies’ Muslim World, 97: 437-478, 2007.

‘Expressions of Religiosity and Blasphemy in Modern Societies’, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35, 2007, pp. 111-125.

‘Globalisation’s Challenge to the Islamic Ummah’, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 34, Number 2, 2006

Social factors in Suicide in Australia, 2006. in De Leo, Diego, Helen Herrman, Shigeru Ueda and Tadashi Takeshima, eds. An Australia-Japan Perspective on Suicide Prevention: Culture, Community and Care, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia

‘Institutional Configurations and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies’, (with Taghi Azadarmaki) Islamic Studies, 42:1, pp 97-106, 2003.

‘On Being Religious: A Study of Christian Muslim Piety in Australia’, Australian Religion Studies Review, 15:1, 2002.

‘Is suicide a disease?’ The Medical Journal of Australia, 175: 554-555, 2001.

‘Pakistanis in Australia’, in Jupp, J. ed., The Australian People, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

‘Muslim Perceptions of the ‘Other’ in Ansari, Z.A and Esposito, J. Eds. Muslims and the West: Encounter and Dialogue, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad and Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2001.

‘Imagining Religion: Self-Images of Islam in the Late Twentieth Century’, Asian Studies Review, 25:2, 2001.

‘Social Consequences of Manufactured Longevity’, The Medical Journal of Australia, 173:601-604, 2000.

‘Suicide in Australia’ in Kellehear, A. ed. Death and Dying in Australia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000.

‘Social Structures and Religiosity in Muslim Countries’, Working Paper 25, Near Eastern Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000, Published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology’, XLI:2, 2000.

‘Attitudes towards Veiling and Patriarchy in Four Muslim Societies’, Working Paper No.26, Near Eastern Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

‘Sociology of Islam’ in The Encyclopaedia of Sociology, eds. E. Borgatta and R. Montgomery, New York: Macmillan, 2000.

‘Home Owners, Home Renovation and Residential Mobility’, (with Scott Baum), Journal of Sociology, 35:1, 1999.

‘Religion, Society and the State in Indonesia and Pakistan’, Islamic Studies, 38:1, 1999.

‘One Hundred Years of Emile Durkheim’s Suicide: A Study in Sociology’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32:2, 1998.

‘Euthanasia and the Medical Profession’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 31:3, 1996.

‘An Open Door or Fortress Australia: Policy Choices for the 21st Century’ (with Adam Jamrozik). The Australian National University, Center for Economic Policy Research, Canberra, 1996. Discussion Paper No. 352.

‘The Euthanasia Debate’ (Editorial Article), The Medical Journal of Australia, 165:18, November, 1996.

‘Planning versus People’, Australian Rationalist, 40, April-July, 1996.

‘Why Families Move: A Study of Residential Mobility in Australia’, (with Xiaowei Zang and Scott Baum), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 32:1, 1996.

‘Residential Choices of Immigrants in Australia’, (with Xiaowei Zang), International Migration, 34:4, 1996.

‘Effects of Newspaper Stories on the Incidence of Suicide in Australia: A Research Note’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 29:480-83, 1995.

‘Temporal Variations in Suicide Occurrence in Australia’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 30:2, 1994.

‘Nurses and the Management of Death, Dying and Euthanasia’, (with C. Stevens) Medicine and Law 13:541-54.

‘Management of Death, Dying and Euthanasia: Attitudes and Practices of Medical Practitioners in South Australia’, (with C. Stevens), Journal of Medical Ethics, 20:41-46, 1994.

‘Economic Restructuring and Spatial Equity: A Case Study of Adelaide’, (with S. Baum), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 29:2, 1993.

‘The Muslim World in the International Economic System’, Journal of Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 13:2, 1993.

‘Pirs and Politics: Religion, Society and the State in Pakistan’, Asian Survey, 26:5, 1987, Serialized in The Times of India, February 1, 2, 3, 1988.

‘Iran’s Islamic Revolutionaries: before and after the revolution’, Third World Quarterly, 6:3, July, 1984.

‘Islamization: An Analysis of Religious, Political and Social Change in Pakistan’, Middle Eastern Studies, 21:3, 1985.

‘Problem of Access to Public Services for the Urban Poor’, Regional Development Dialogue, 6, 2, 1985.

‘Perception of Population Policies’ in Peter S.J. Chen and James T. Fawcett (eds), Public Policy and Population Change in Singapore, New York, The Population Council, 1979.

‘Ethnic Outmarriage in Singapore: The Influence of Socio-Cultural Factors’, (with Geoffrey Benjamin), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 35,4, 1973, reprinted in David J. Banks (ed.), Changing Identities in Modern Southeast Asia, Mouton Publishers, 1976.

‘Inter-ethnic Marriage in Singapore - A Sociological Analysis’, Sociology and Social Research, 55:3, 1971.

‘Some Social Concomitants of Inter-ethnic Marriage in Singapore’, (with Eddie Kuo), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38:3, 1976.

‘Vietnamese Family Values’, (with J. Healy and R. McKenna) in Des Storer (ed.) Ethnic Family Values in Australia, Melbourne, Prentice-Hall of Australia, 1985.
‘Lebanese Family Values’, (with J. Healy and R. McKenna) in Des Storer (ed.), Ethnic Family Values in Australia.

‘Aboriginal Family Values’, (with J. Healy and R. McKenna) in Des Storer (ed.) Ethnic Family Values in Australia.

‘Asian Migrants in Australia: A Socio-Economic Study’ (with G. Tan), Immigrants and Minorities, 9, 1, 1990.

‘Changing Patterns of Suicide in Australia’ (with Joan Carr), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 23, July 1989.

‘Suicide Trends in Australia 1901-1985’, (with G. Tan), Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour, 19: 4, 1989.

‘Women’s Emancipation and Suicide in Australia’, (with G. Tan), The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 28, 1, 1992.

‘Social Factors in Suicide in Australia’, Trends and Issues, Paper No. 52, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 1996.

'Suicide in Singapore’, European Journal of Sociology, 20: 2, 1980.

‘Belief Systems and Job Satisfaction - An Empirical Test of the Weberian Hypothesis’, Sociologus, 20:1, 1970.

‘A Protestant Ethic Scale’, Social Compass, 18:4, 1971.

‘Islam and Urbanization in the Medieval Middle-East’, The Eastern Anthropologist, 25: 2, 1972, reprinted in Ekistics, February, 1972.

Other recent activities and papers related to my current research

Co-convener (with Professor Mervyn Lewis, National Australia Bank Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of South Australia) of Australian Academy of the Social Sciences Workshop on Perspectives on Islam, held at University of South Australia, November 27-28, 2003.

‘Islam and Civil Society: An Exploration’, an invited paper delivered at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Workshop on Islamic-Western Dialogue on Governance Values: Liberty, Civil Society and Civic Education, held at Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, 17-20 January 2004.

‘Globalisation and the Islamic Ummah’, an invited paper delivered at the International Symposium on Islam in Southeast Asia and China: Regional Faithlines and Faultlines in the Global Ummah, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 28 - 1 December 2002.

‘Globalisation’s Challenge to Islam’, YaleGlobal, 17 April 2003.

‘Globalization’s Challenge to the Islamic Ummah’, An invited paper presented at the Conference on Risk, Complex Crises and Social Futures, at the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, Amman, Jordan, 11-13 October 2003. ‘Religion and Politics in Muslim Countries’ An invited paper presented at the Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Islamic Workshop on Rights and Religious Pluralism, held at the Rydges Lakeside Hotel, Canberra, February 15-18, 2004.

‘Terrorists and their Tools’, YaleGlobal, April 23, 2004.

‘Suicide Attacks: Life as a Weapon’ ISIM Newsletter, June 2004.

‘Expressions of Religiosity and Blasphemy in Modern Societies’ paper presented at the conference on The Sacred and Sacrilege in Multicultural Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, May 2004.

‘On Being Religious: Patterns of Religious Commitments in Muslim Societies’, A paper presented at the meetings of Association for the Sociology of Religion, San Francisco, August 2004.

‘Conceptions of Jihad and Conflict Resolution in Muslim Societies: An Exploration’, Paper presented at the conference on Anatomy of Religious Conflicts in South and Southeast Asia’ Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 2005.

‘Giving and Gaining: Philanthropy for Social Justice in Muslim Societies’, Paper presented at the Workshop on Philanthropy for Social Justice in Muslim Countries held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia November 7-8, 2005.

‘Social Factors in Suicide in Australia’, A paper presented at the symposium on, ‘Suicide Prevention: Culture, Community and Care: An Australian Japanese Perspective’ Organised by the Joint Ministerial Committee on Health, Melbourne, 24-26 November 2004

‘Nations Locked in Servitude by a Gulf in Learning’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 November 2006

'Jihad and the West Part I', YaleGlobal, 21 September 2006

'Interrupting a History of Tolerance Part I', YaleGlobal 19 July 2007

'Interrupting a History of Tolerance Part II', YaleGlobal 24 July, 2007

Invited Keynote Address at International Conferences

'Global Rise of Suicide Terrorism: A Sociological Perspective', Invited keynote address delivered at the 2nd World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Amman, Jordan, June 15, 2006

'Suicide Terrorism: Its Nature and Management in Different Countries', Invited keynote address delivered at the International Seminar on Crime Prevention, Building International Cooperation Against terrorism, Focusing on: Suicide Bombing as a Symptom in Terrorism, Organised by Indonesian Crime Prevention Foundation, February 27th-28th, 2006, Jakarta, Indonesia