Muslim Childhood: Religious Nurture in a European Context

by Asma Khan, Sameh Otri, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, et al.

How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199600317
• ISBN13: 9780199600311
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"