Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty (The International African Library #54)
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- Synopsis
- In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youths, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur'anic students have garnered a reputation for resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from long-term ethnographic and ‘participatory’ fieldwork among Qur'anic students and their communities, this book offers an alternative perspective on youth, faith, and poverty. Mobilising insights from scholarship on education, poverty research, and childhood and youth studies, Hannah Hoechner describes how religious discourses can moderate feelings of inadequacy triggered by experiences of exclusion, and how Qur'anic school enrolment offers a way forward in constrained circumstances, even though it is likely to reproduce poverty in the long run. A pioneering study of religious school students conducted through ‘participatory’ methods, this book presents vital insights into the concerns of this much-vilified group.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108656276
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108425292, 9781108425292
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/16/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Hannah Hoechner
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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