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Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school

Bibliographic Data

ID2279358
AuthorsFida Adely (0000-0002-3084-6504, Georgetown University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume39
Issue2
Pages297-312
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01365.x
OpenAlexW2147998047
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited33

Outside the formal and intended curriculum in Jordanian schools, the efforts of students and instructors to teach about religion and living piously as Muslim women span a myriad of spaces and approaches. At the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls, tensions surrounding religious authority were enmeshed with struggles outside school, specifically with a local piety movement and with a politics of authenticity that has women at its center. Competing interpretations of Islamic orthodoxy, and contests for moral authority, come to the fore in schools in unique ways, and schools provide a space and tools for young women to negotiate these tensions. [women, education, Islam, schools, Jordan, religion

Curriculum · Faith · Islam · Moral authority · Moral development · Negotiation · Orthodoxy · Pedagogy · Piety · Political science · Politics · Religious education · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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