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Examines how learning and teaching morality in Tanzania's faith-oriented schools is inextricably interwoven with the complex power relations of an interconnected world.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Quest for a Good Life in Faith-Oriented Schools; Part I. (Post-)Colonial Politics of Religious Difference and Education: 2. Entangled Histories of Religious Pluralism and Schooling; 3. Staging and Governing Religious Difference in the Haven of Peace; Part II. Moral Becoming and Educational Inequalities in Dar es Salaam: 4. Market Orientation and Belonging in Neo-Pentecostal Schools; 5. Marginality and Religious Difference in Islamic Seminaries; 6. Privilege and Prayer in Catholic Schools; 7. Conclusion: Politics, Inequalities, and Power in Religiously Diverse Fields.
About the author
Hansjörg Dilger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include the anthropology of religion and religious diversity, critical medical anthropology, and the study of global and transnational processes. He is co-editor of Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2020).
Summary
Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a “good life” in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.
