Putting Islam to Work - Education, Politics, & Religious Tranformation in Egypt (Paper)

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-20927-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 370 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work, Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and a growing state interest in religious instruction have changed the way the Islamic tradition is reproduced.

During the twentieth century new styles of religious education, based not on the recitation of sacred texts but on moral indoctrination, have been harnessed for use in economic, political, and social development programs. More recently they have become part of the Egyptian government's strategy for combating Islamist political opposition. But in the course of this struggle, the western-style educational techniques that were adopted to generate political stability have instead resulted in a rapid Islamization of public space, the undermining of traditional religious authority structures, and a crisis of political legitimacy. Using historical, textual, and ethnographic evidence, Gregory Starrett demonstrates that today's Islamic resurgence is rooted in new ways of thinking about Islam that are based in the market, the media, and the school.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Starett, Gregory

Starrett, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

PART I
1 Creating an Object

PART II
2 Education and the Management of Populations

3 The Progressive Policy of the Government

PART III
4 Learning about God
5 The Path of Clarification

6 Growing Up: Four Stories
PART IV
7 State of Emergency

8 Broken Boundaries and the Politics of Fear

Notes

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Starrett is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.