Agents of god : boundaries and authority in muslim and christian schools / Jeffrey Guhin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guhin, Jeffrey, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious education--Social aspects.

Religious education--New York (State)--New York.

Islamic religious education--New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Based on a year and a half of ethnographic observation and interviews with teachers and students at four high schools in the New York City area - two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian -, sociologist Jeffrey Guhin argues that these schools use politics, gender, sex, and the internet to separate themselves from the rest of America, a country they view as both a promise and a threat. In examining these boundaries, he describes how the schools use scripture, prayer, and science as a means of maintaining their authority over the students' lives.

Contents:

1. Authority and Essence

2. Politics and Public Schools

3. Differently Differentiating Gender

4. Sex and the Internet

5. Scripture as External Authority

6. Prayer as External Authority

7. Science as External Authority

8. It's Dangerous Out There

Methodological Appendix

Endnotes

Bibliography .

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-024476-3

0-19-024475-5

0-19-754299-9