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Author Schneider, Suzanne, 1983- author.

Title Mandatory separation : religion, education, and mass politics in Palestine / Suzanne Schneider
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018

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Contents Religious education in the modern age -- Educational modernity in Palestine -- Education and community under sectarian rule -- New schooling for an "old" order -- The boundaries of "religious" knowledge -- Border clashes -- Conclusion : the invisible cross
Summary Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated varied responses over the last century. Taking Jewish and Islamic education as its objects of inquiry, Mandatory Separation sheds light on the contours of this debate in Palestine during the formative period of British rule, detailing how colonial, Zionist, and Palestinian-Muslim leaders developed competing views of the form and function of religious education in an age of mass politics. Drawing from archival records, school syllabi, textbooks, newspapers, and personal narratives, Suzanne Schneider argues that the British Mandatory government supported religious education as a supposed antidote to nationalist passions at the precise moment when the administrative, pedagogic, and curricular transformation of religious schooling rendered it a vital tool for Zionist and Palestinian leaders. This study of their policies and practices illuminates the tensions, similarities, and differences among these diverse educational and political philosophies, revealing the lasting significance of these debates for thinking about religion and political identity in the modern Middle East
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Jewish religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Islamic religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Education and state -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Education -- Political aspects -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Education and state
Education -- Political aspects
Islamic religious education
Jewish religious education
Politics and government
Religious education
SUBJECT Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097181
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017047749
ISBN 9781503604520
1503604527