The Impact of Religious Factors on the Split Between Singapore and Malaysia

Abstract

As one of the major events in Southeast Asia in the last century, the split between Singapore and Malaysia has aroused a certain degree of heated discussion in the academic community. However, the majority of scholars have not paid much attention to the impact of religion on society when analyzing this event. Therefore, this paper seeks to examine how religions influenced the division of Singapore and Malaysia. The paper will explain the logic of the operation of religion in this event, integrating the influence of people, parties and churches on this event and the influence of this event on this event and its logic. This study further discusses the relationship between religion and the division event by analyzing the relationship between religious belief and race and the proportion of religious believes. It explains to some extent how religious antagonism in Malaysia affects the decision of the public and political parties to split the country. In the conclusion, the paper argues that folk separatism caused by nationalism had been closely related to religion.