Hansjoerg Dilger (Freie Universitat Berlin)

Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a "good life" in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.

Produktdetails

• The International African Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781316514221
• ISBN-10: 1316514226
• Artikelnr.: 62313286

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.