{"product_id":"heavenly-readings-liturgical-literacy-in-a-multilingual-context-9781847690920","title":"Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brief volume contributes very constructively to the fields of \"Sociology of literacy\", \"Sociology of Religion\" and the joint and pioneering field \"Sociology of Language and Religion\" and can serve as an excellent introductory textbook to each of them when taught as undergraduate or early graduate level courses. In addition, it covers beautifully such increasingly vital areas as Islam in England and in South Asia, diglossia between modern spoken, read and written vernaculars and related, but often very different, classical languages of rote-recited liturgy.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Joshua A. Fishman, prizewinning and renowned sociolinguistic author, editor and researcher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that is at once entertaining, informative and highly educative.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tope Omoniyi, Professor of Sociolinguistics, Roehampton University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Plates\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart I The Study of Liturgical Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction to Liturgical Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Community and its Ethnography\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart II The Community and its Liturgical Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Children\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Parents\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Teachers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Organisers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart III The Settings for Liturgical Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Mosques\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Home\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 School\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart IV The Languages of Liturgical Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Urdu\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Mirpuri-Punjabi\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 English\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart V Concluding Remarks and Implications\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Concluding Remarks\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel View Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043003433303,"sku":"9781847690920","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781847690920.jpg?v=1750956612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heavenly-readings-liturgical-literacy-in-a-multilingual-context-9781847690920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}