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Islam on Campus - Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain (Paperback)
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Islam on Campus - Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain (Paperback)
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Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and
lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about 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 secularizing force. This framing
has resulted in religion often being marginalized 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, this book explores university life and the
ways in which ideas about Islam and Muslim identities are produced,
experienced, perceived, appropriated, and objectified. It asks what
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. It demonstrates the urgent
need to release Islam from its official role as the othered, 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.
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