Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain
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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Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain
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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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192586001
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 10/16/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Dr Alison Scott-Baumann is Professor of Society and Belief and Associate Director of Research (Impact and Public Engagement) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, UK. Dr Mathew Guest is Professor in the Sociology of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, where he has taught since 2004. Dr Shuruq Naguib is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Lancaster University, UK and Associate Editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’?n Online (Brill). Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is a Feminist Sociologist of Religion. She is Assistant Professor and Research Group Lead for Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. Dr Aisha Phoenix was the postdoctoral researcher on the Re/presenting Islam on Campus research project based at SOAS University of London. Her current research is on colourism.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
1. Muslims in the Twenty-First-Century University: Higher Education and its Cultural 'Other'
2. Ethical Agency: Researching Islam on Campus
3. Diversity in the Muslim Student Experience: Individual and Institutional Dimensions
4. How is Islam Known and Not Known on Campus?
5. Islam and Gender on Campus
6. Islam and Religious Diversity on campus: Negotiating Different Lives Together
7. 'Radicalisation': Anxiety And Stigma In Campus Contexts
8. Multiple Hierarchies: The Politics of Knowledge in Islamic Studies
9. Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom
10. Conclusion
Appendix 1: What is the Religious Profile of Students in the UK's Higher Education sector?
Appendix 2: The Demographic Constituency of the Survey Sample
Bibliography
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