Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria

Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty

Bibliographic Data

ID6572797
AuthorsHannah Hoechner (0000-0002-6804-2819, Université Libre de Bruxelles, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages286
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueQuranic Schools in Northern Nigeria (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/9781108348270
WikidataQ115697613
OpenAlexW3165398061
Open LibraryOL29362919M, OL34715654M
ISBN9781108425292, 9781108348270
LanguageEN
Citations received19

In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur’anic students have garnered a reputation of resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from long-term ethnographic and participatory fieldwork among Qur’anic students and their communities, this book offers an alternative perspective on youth, faith, and poverty. Mobilising insights from scholarship on education, poverty research and childhood and youth studies, Hannah Hoechner describes how religious discourses can moderate feelings of inadequacy triggered by experiences of exclusion, and how Qur’anic school enrolment offers a way forward in constrained circumstances, even though it likely reproduces poverty in the long run. A pioneering study of religious school students conducted through participatory methods, this book presents vital insights into the concerns of this much-vilified group

Citizen journalism · Citizenship · Credibility · Ethnography · Faith · Feeling · Geography · Global Citizenship Education · Islam · Nigeria · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Reputation · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Education · Education, nigeria · Islamic religious education · Islamic religious education of children · Islamische Erziehung · Koranschule

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