Academization of Pious Learning

A Student's Quest in Religious Education

Bibliographic Data

ID3499564
AuthorsMieke Groeninck (0000-0002-5940-5227, Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue6
Pages309
Publication date2020-06-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11060309
OpenAlexW3035777122
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited39

This paper focuses on the move towards "academization" of Islamic religious education in private institutes belonging to the reform movement in Brussels. An attempt is made to think through this move in terms of the sacred knowledge concerned, and the alleged implications for teachers and students of Islam. Some of the crucial elements that go with this shift are the aspiration for "distantiation" in teaching and knowing aspects of internal diversity, as well as the aspired changes in the professor-student (instead of shaykh-disciple) relationship. By focusing on ethnographic examples, the aim is to contribute to our understanding of the importance of the internal debates instigated by an attempt towards academization, the search for coherence that goes with it, its repercussions on people's daily life and personal sensibilities, as well as on Islamic expert authority formation

Epistemology · Ethnography · Islam · Islamic Education · Pedagogy · Religious education · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Education and Islamic Studies · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

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