Making Muslims: The Politics of Religious Identity Construction and Victoria's Islamic Schools
Islamic schools in Australia have become a subject of notable societal and academic interest, but discussions on the purpose of these schools are often approached from the perspective of concerns about national security or the integration of ethnic minorities. Given the growing popularity of Islamic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2013]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2013, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-517 |
| RelBib Classification: | AH Religious education BJ Islam KBS Australia; Oceania TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Muslim youths
B Education B Islamic schools B politics of identity B religious identity construction |
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| Summary: | Islamic schools in Australia have become a subject of notable societal and academic interest, but discussions on the purpose of these schools are often approached from the perspective of concerns about national security or the integration of ethnic minorities. Given the growing popularity of Islamic schools in the Australian educational landscape, critics of such schools often assume that their pedagogical climate, curriculum and “separatist” environment does not foster the formation of cultural citizenship. This essay analyses the complex interplay between religion, Islamic identity formation and the politics of schooling in diasporic settings on the basis of an analysis of the experiences of graduates of Islamic schools in Victoria. It provides an insight into the multidimensional role Victoria's Islamic schools play and enables a better understanding of how the schooling of Muslim students in Victoria's Islamic schools relates to the development of an Islamic identity, which is critical to a conceptualizing of how Islamic schools are considered sites for religious identity construction. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2013.813120 |