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mass higher education and the religious imagination in contemporary Arab societies
Author(s) -
EICKELMAN DALE F.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1992.19.4.02a00010
Subject(s) - islam , religious education , politics , sociology , mass education , religious identity , identity (music) , mass media , social science , gender studies , higher education , religious studies , political science , law , aesthetics , theology , pedagogy , philosophy , negotiation
This article explores the relationship between the recent growth of mass higher education in the Arab Muslim world, particularly in Oman and North Africa, religious activism, and the implications of the “objectified” religious knowledge and authority that modern education encourages. Study of the new ways of knowing and the emerging networks for communication and action produced by mass higher education and contemporary religious activism offers insight into the “political economy” of religious knowledge: the interplay of religion, politics, and national identity. [ Islam, Middle East, authority, religion, education ]