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Heavenly Readings

Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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This ethnographic study investigates for the first time in any significant depth the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam as they are shaped, lived and experienced within a typical multilingual Muslim community in the United Kingdom. It seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such practices which have often been misinformed, misrepresented and misunderstood. Making liberal recourse to the words, views and lives of its participants, this book describes, explores and celebrates liturgical literacy as a major contributor to group and individual cultural, linguistic and religious identities. In a political and social climate often inimical to religious practices in general, and to Islamic ones in particular, this book highlights the centrality and significance of such literacy practices to minority ethno-religious communities in their daily lives.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-08-04
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Perspectives on Language and Education
Antal sidor256
FörlagChannel View Publications Ltd
ISBN9781847690920

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AcknowledgementsList of PlatesList of Tables and FiguresPart I The Study of Liturgical LiteracyChapter 1 Introduction to Liturgical LiteracyChapter 2 The Community and its EthnographyPart II The Community and its Liturgical LiteracyChapter 3 ChildrenChapter 4 ParentsChapter 5 TeachersChapter 6 OrganisersPart III The Settings for Liturgical LiteracyChapter 7 MosquesChapter 8 HomeChapter 9 SchoolPart IV The Languages of Liturgical LiteracyChapter 10 UrduChapter 11 Mirpuri-PunjabiChapter 12 EnglishChapter 13 ArabicPart V Concluding Remarks and ImplicationsChapter 14 Concluding RemarksReferences

This brief volume contributes very constructively to the fields of "Sociology of literacy", "Sociology of Religion" and the joint and pioneering field "Sociology of Language and Religion" and can serve as an excellent introductory textbook to each of them when taught as undergraduate or early graduate level courses. In addition, it covers beautifully such increasingly vital areas as Islam in England and in South Asia, diglossia between modern spoken, read and written vernaculars and related, but often very different, classical languages of rote-recited liturgy.