Learning morality, inequalities, and faith : Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilger, Hansjörg, author.

Series:

International African Library.

The International African Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious education--Tanzania.

Religious education.

Moral education--Tanzania.

Moral education.

Islamic religious education--Tanzania.

Islamic religious education.

Urban schools--Tanzania.

Urban schools.

Religion and sociology--Tanzania.

Religion and sociology.

Tanzania--Religious life and customs.

Tanzania.

Tanzania--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Christian and Muslim schools have become important target points in families and pupils' quests for new study opportunities and securing a 'good life' in Tanzania. These schools combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young people, triggering new realignments of the fields of education with interreligious co-existence and class formation in the country's urban centres. Hansjörg Dilger explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual and collective embodiment. By contextualising these dynamics through analysis of the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the positions of these highly diverse religious communities in diverging ways. In doing so, Dilger suggests that students and teachers' religious experience and practice in faith-oriented schools are shaped by the search for socio-moral belonging as well as by the power relations and inequalities of an interconnected world.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Quest for a Good Life in Faith-Oriented Schools; Part I. (Post-)Colonial Politics of Religious Difference and Education: 2. Entangled Histories of Religious Pluralism and Schooling; 3. Staging and Governing Religious Difference in the Haven of Peace; Part II. Moral Becoming and Educational Inequalities in Dar es Salaam: 4. Market Orientation and Belonging in Neo-Pentecostal Schools; 5. Marginality and Religious Difference in Islamic Seminaries; 6. Privilege and Prayer in Catholic Schools; 7. Conclusion: Politics, Inequalities, and Power in Religiously Diverse Fields.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-258) and index.

ISBN:

1-009-08529-8

1-009-08581-6

1-009-08280-9

OCLC:

1290487167