Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Islam on Campus : Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain, Hardback Book

Islam on Campus : Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain Hardback

Hardback

Out of stock

Description

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived, and lived within higher education in Britain.

It considers the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it.

Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher education to be a strongly secularising force.

This framing has resulted in religion often being marginalised or ignored as a cultural irrelevance by the university sector.

However, recent times have seen higher education increasingly drawn into political discourses that problematize religion in general, and Islam in particular, as an object of risk. Using the largest data set yet collected in the UK, Islam on Campus explores university life and the ways in which ideas about Islam and Muslim identities are produced, experienced, perceived, appropriated, and objectified.

The volume considers the role universities and Muslim higher education institutions play in the production, reinforcement, and contestation of emerging narratives about religious difference.

This is a culturally nuanced treatment of universities as sites of knowledge production, and contexts for the negotiation of perspectives on culture and religion among an emerging generation.

This collaborative study demonstrates the urgent need to release Islam from its official role as the othered, or the feared.

When universities achieve this we will be able to help students of all affiliations and of none to be citizens of the campus in preparation for being citizens of the world.

Information

£96.00

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information