Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith

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).

• 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.

'A timely and critical analysis of inequality, politics, and power in Tanzania. Dilger shows how religiously diverse discursive and social practices are constructed and reconstructed through specific material conditions which disproportionately position educational institutions in relation to their faith.' Thomas Ndaluka, University of Dar es Salaam