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Islam on campus : contested identities and the cultures of higher education in Britain
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- Creator
- Alison Scott-Baumann, Mathew Guest, Shuruq Naguib, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Aisha Phoenix ; with the assistance of Tarek Al Baghad and Yenn Lee
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020
- ©2020
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780191881787, 0191881783, 9780192586001, 0192586009, 0198846789, 9780198846789, 9780198846789
- OCLC
- on1202452030
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Praise for Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain -- Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Muslims in the Twenty-First Century University: Higher Education and its Cultural 'Other' -- Introduction: The Segregated Seating Controversy -- Contested Histories, Contested Identities -- The Public University and the University's Publics -- The Neo-liberal University
- The University as a Site of Inclusion and Exclusion -- The Postcolonial University -- Caveat: Is the UK University Secular? -- The University as a Site of Heightened Risk -- Islam and the Securitization Agenda -- Conclusions: A Heightened Othering? -- Chapter 2: Ethical Agency: Researching Islam on Campus -- Introduction: Beyond Ethical Neutrality -- Positionality, Perspective, and Identity -- Ethnographically Informed Approaches -- Pre-emptive Epistemic Injustice: Author Voice and Respondent Voice -- Research Design: Islam on Campus -- The Qualitative Case Studies -- The Quantitative Survey
- Analysis of Findings -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Diversity in the Muslim Student Experience: Individual and Institutional Dimensions -- Introduction: Muslim Students in the Twenty-First Century -- Organizational Cultures in Higher Education -- The Governing Discourse -- The Social Contexts of Teaching and Learning -- The Campus Interaction Order -- The Six Case Studies -- The Universities -- Central University -- Heritage University -- Citywide University -- Greenfield Campus -- Muslim Colleges -- Olive Tree College -- City Muslim College -- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: How is Islam Known and NotKnown on Campus? -- Knowing as Social Transformation -- Knowing and Not Knowing on Campus? -- Sources of Knowledge of Islam and Religion -- Negotiating Islam on Campus -- How do Muslims 'Do' Knowledge? -- What Conceptions of Higher Education can Islamic Knowledge Provide? -- Conclusions: Between Negotiation and Non-Negotiation, a Continuum of Knowledge of Islam on Campus -- Chapter 5: Islam and Gender on Campus -- Gendering Islam -- Situating Gender and Islam on Campus -- Muslim Women and the Hijab, Niqab, and Burqa -- Stereotyping Muslim Men
- Capturing the Gendered Diversity of Muslims on Campus -- The Politics of Dress -- Muslim Women's Negotiations of the Politics of Dress -- Muslim Men and the Politics of Dress -- Gendered Stereotypes of Muslims -- Gendered Positioning on Campus -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Islam and Religious Diversity on Campus: Negotiating Different Lives Together -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Religion or Belief in Universities -- Complicating 'Inter-religious' -- Experiencing Religious Diversity on Campus -- 'Gates and walls': Barriers to Inter- and Intra-religious Dialogue