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anthropology
Author_Gregory Starrett
authority structures
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cultural studies
egypt
egyptian culture
egyptian government
egyptian history
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ethnography
islam
islamic tradition
islamization of public space
mass education
mass media
mass mediation
modernism
modernity
moral indoctrination
muslim
political legitimacy
political opposition
political stability
power
public culture
religion
religious education
religious instruction
religious studies
religious transformation
Product details
- ISBN 9780520209275
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In "Putting Islam to Work", Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and a growing state interest in religious instruction have changed the way the Islamic tradition is reproduced. During the twentieth century new styles of religious education, based not on the recitation of sacred texts but on moral indoctrination, have been harnessed for use in economic, political, and social development programs. More recently they have become part of the Egyptian government's strategy for combating Islamist political opposition. But in the course of this struggle, the western-style educational techniques that were adopted to generate political stability have instead resulted in a rapid Islamization of public space, the undermining of traditional religious authority structures, and a crisis of political legitimacy.
Using historical, textual, and ethnographic evidence, Gregory Starrett demonstrates that today's Islamic resurgence is rooted in new ways of thinking about Islam that are based in the market, the media, and the school.
Gregory Starrett is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
