TY - BOOK ID - 85465732 TI - Quranic schools in Northern Nigeria : everyday experiences of youth, faith, and poverty PY - 2018 SN - 1108656277 1108348270 1108694322 1108425291 1108441734 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islamic education KW - Education KW - Education, Islamic KW - Education, Muslim KW - Islam KW - Muslim education KW - Qurʼan KW - Al-Coran KW - Al-Qur'an KW - Alcorà KW - Alcoran KW - Alcorano KW - Alcoranus KW - Alcorão KW - Alkoran KW - Coran KW - Curān KW - Gulan jing KW - Karan KW - Koran KW - Koranen KW - Korani KW - Koranio KW - Korano KW - Ku-lan ching KW - Ḳurʼān KW - Kurāna KW - Kurani KW - Kuru'an KW - Qorān KW - Quräan KW - Qurʼān al-karīm KW - Qurʺon KW - Xuraan KW - Κοράνιο KW - Каран KW - Коран KW - קוראן KW - قرآن KW - Study and teaching KW - Muslim youth KW - Youth KW - Students KW - Islamic religious education KW - Religious life KW - Muslim religious education KW - Religious education, Islamic KW - Religious education KW - Pupils KW - School life KW - Student life and customs KW - Persons KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Youngsters KW - Youths KW - Age groups KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Islamic youth KW - Youth, Muslim KW - Nigeria KW - Federation of Nigeria KW - Nigerianische Föderation KW - Republic of Nigeria KW - Bundesrepublik Nigeria KW - Nigerija KW - Federal Military Government KW - Nigeriia KW - Federal Republic of Nigeria KW - Nigerianer KW - 1960 KW - -Muslim youth UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465732 AB - In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur'anic students have garnered a reputation of resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from long-term ethnographic and participatory fieldwork among Qur'anic students and their communities, this book offers an alternative perspective on youth, faith, and poverty. Mobilising insights from scholarship on education, poverty research and childhood and youth studies, Hannah Hoechner describes how religious discourses can moderate feelings of inadequacy triggered by experiences of exclusion, and how Qur'anic school enrolment offers a way forward in constrained circumstances, even though it likely reproduces poverty in the long run. A pioneering study of religious school students conducted through participatory methods, this book presents vital insights into the concerns of this much-vilified group. ER -