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Children's religious agency: conceptualising I slamic idioms of resistance
Author(s) -
Habashi Janette
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01126.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , oppression , scrutiny , resistance (ecology) , politics , narrative , islam , sociology , gender studies , colonialism , political science , law , social science , theology , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , biology
This paper seeks to examine how P alestinian children's agency integrates I slamic religious idioms in daily life to combat I sraeli oppression. While children are often seen as objects that are merely subjected to political and cultural processes, this research shows that children have agency and use their religious expression as a way to further their own political freedom and resist the imposing geopolitical agenda of colonialism. Since the inception of the war on terror that highlighted increased scrutiny and backlash against I slam in W estern discourse, resistance through religion has become an integral part of P alestinian children's agency. The narratives of 28 P alestinian children demonstrate the claim that the children have agency in using the expression of Islamic idioms as resistance against W estern perceptions and Israeli oppression.