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Author Schneider, Suzanne, 1983- author.

Title Mandatory separation : religion, education, and mass politics in Palestine / Suzanne Schneider.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Religious education.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Jewish religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish religious education.
Islamic religious education -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Islamic religious education.
Education and state -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Education and state.
Education -- Political aspects -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Education -- Political aspects.
Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Schneider, Suzanne, 1983- Mandatory separation. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604148 (DLC) 2017022011
ISBN 9781503604520 (electronic book)
1503604527 (electronic book)
9781503604148 (cloth ; alkaline paper)