Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-07797-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: The International African Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dilger, Hansjörg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Dilger, Hansjörg
Hansjörg Dilger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include the anthropology of religion and religious diversity, critical medical anthropology, and the study of global and transnational processes. He is co-editor of Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2020).