Muslim Childhood: Religious Nurture In A European Context
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Jonathan Scourfield, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Asma Khan, and Sameh Otri
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Oxford
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: Oxford Uniersity Press
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, 2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 239 p.
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: ill
GENERAL NOTES
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Chapter 2 co-authored by Chris Taylor and Graham Moore
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Islam and Middle Childhood -- Inter-Generational Transmission of Islam: Evidence from the Citizenship Survey -- Qualitative Research on Islamic Nurture -- Learning Islam in the Home -- Children in Formal Religious Education -- School, City, and Society -- Muslim Family Life --Nationality, Ethnicity, and Religion -- Conclusion. How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions about faith at key moments? Or should we turn to cognitive science to explain the universal structures on which is And how does a relatively devout minority pass on religion in a generally secular Western context? What does religion have for family life in this situation? And how does a religious identity interact with other kinds of collective identification, for example with a nation, ethnic group or a locality? These are some of the that Muslim Childhood deals with. This book is about ordinary British Muslims' everyday religious socialization of children in early and middle childhood. It provides a detailed description of how Muslim families in a context attempt to pass on their faith to the next generation. It is rooted in detailed qualitative research with 60 Muslim families in one British city. The authors' own analysis of survey data suggests that in the UK more pass on their faith to the next generation than other religious groups. This book is in part an to explain why that might be. -- Back cover.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Muslim families -- Wales -- Cardiff
Muslim children -- Religious life -- Wales -- Cardiff
Islamic religious education of children -- Wales -- Cardiff
Islam -- Social aspects -- Wales -- Cardiff
Identity (Psychology) in children -- Wales -- Cardiff