Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania (The International African Library)

Dilger Hansj Rg

ISBN 10: 100907797X / ISBN 13: 9781009077972

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania (The International African Library)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 100907797X
• ISBN 13: 9781009077972
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Christian and Muslim schools have become important target points in families and pupils' quests for new study opportunities and securing a 'good life' in Tanzania. These schools combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young people, triggering new realignments of the fields of education with interreligious co-existence and class formation in the country's urban centres. Hansjörg Dilger explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual and collective embodiment. By contextualising these dynamics through analysis of the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the positions of these highly diverse religious communities in diverging ways. In doing so, Dilger suggests that students and teachers' religious experience and practice in faith-oriented schools are shaped by the search for socio-moral belonging as well as by the power relations and inequalities of an interconnected world.

About the Author

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).