Muslim childhood
Subtitle: religious nurture in a European context
By: Jonathan Scourfield, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Asma Khan, and Sameh Otri
Contributors: Gilliat-Ray, Sophie, 1969- author; Khan, Asma (Asma Shahin), author; Otri, Sameh, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780199600311
Subjects: Kind; Social aspects; Muslim families; Religiöse Erziehung; Religion; Muslims; Islamic religious education of children; Muslim children; Identity (Psychology) in children; Religious life; Islam
Description: How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasize the habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions about faith at key moments? Or should we turn to cognitive science to explain the universal structures on which religiosity is built? And how does a relatively devout minority pass on religion in a generally secular Western context? What significance does religion have for family life in this situation? And how does a religious identity interact with other kinds of collective identification, for example with a nation, ethnic group or a locality? These are some of the questions that Muslim Childhood deals with. This book is about ordinary British Muslims' everyday religious socialization of children in early and middle childhood. It provides a detailed description of how Muslim families in a secular Western context attempt to pass on their faith to the next generation. It is rooted in detailed qualitative research with 60 Muslim families in one British city. The authors' own analysis of survey data suggests that Muslims in the UK more effectively pass on their faith to the next generation than other religious groups. This book is in part an attempt to explain why that might be. -- Back cover.
Notes: Chapter 2 co-authored by Chris Taylor and Graham Moore.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Islam and Middle Childhood; title: Inter-Generational Transmission of Islam: Evidence from the Citizenship Survey; title: Qualitative Research on Islamic Nurture; title: Learning Islam in the Home; title: Children in Formal Religious Education; title: School, City, and Society; title: Muslim Family Life; title: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Religion; title: Conclusion.