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Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context

Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context

Rosowsky, Andrey

Paperback

Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education, Book 9

General ReferenceLinguisticsIslam

ISBN10: 1847690920
ISBN13: 9781847690920
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: Aug 4 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This ethnographic study investigates for the first time in any significant depth the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam as they are shaped, lived and experienced within a typical multilingual Muslim community in the United Kingdom. It seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such practices which have often been misinformed, misrepresented and misunderstood. Making liberal recourse to the words, views and lives of its participants, this book describes, explores and celebrates liturgical literacy as a major contributor to group and individual cultural, linguistic and religious identities. In a political and social climate often inimical to religious practices in general, and to Islamic ones in particular, this book highlights the centrality and significance of such literacy practices to minority ethno-religious communities in their daily lives.

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