{"product_id":"mandatory-separation-religion-education-and-mass-politics-in-palestine-paperback-softback-9781503604155","title":"Mandatory Separation; Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503604155","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMandatory Separation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Schneider (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503604155\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 February 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 6 halftones, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMandatory Separation\u003c\/i\u003e sheds welcome light on a crucial aspect of the British Mandate for Palestine, education for mass politics among both Jews and Muslims. Through this discussion, Suzanne Schneider exposes some of the essential foundations for the decades of conflict in Palestine and Israel that have followed. An important and timely work.\"—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University \"Brilliantly weaving together British, Zionist, and Palestinian Arab sources, Suzanne Schneider reveals the roots of national politics in the continuities, disjunctures, and struggles among the educators and reformers who saw the schools of Palestine as ground zero in their efforts to construct the ideal modern citizen. \u003ci\u003eMandatory Separation\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the intertwining of religion and national politics in Israel\/Palestine today is neither new nor eternal.\"—Liora R. Halperin, University of Washington \"The book's novelty lies in its inclusion of education in [its] analytical framework, seeking to examine how two separate national communities operated under and interacted with the same system. Schneider reveals how, instead of promoting understanding, British colonial educational policy adopted and promoted a mandatory separation between the two communities....The book is articulate, straightforward and fun to read—a must read for scholars of the Palestine Mandate, the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, and British colonial history.\"—Yoni Furas, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \"Schneider's book provides a compelling case study of how \"religion\" was defined and produced in a semi-colonial context in Palestine, and how those efforts connected with earlier labors concerning Judaism in Europe and Islam in the Levant. She also effectively argues that despite the determined portrayal in archival documents of religions as known, stable, and fixed categories, the reality in Palestine was that \"religion,\" and specifically \"Judaism\" and \"Islam,\" continued to escape and confound fixity. Her focus on education helps elucidate how \"religious education\" was produced as a particular category of knowledge, in which direct, unmediated access to scripture for the purpose of understanding its edifying moral lessons was privileged over studying the exegetical traditions.\"—Andrea Stanton, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eMandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e, Suzanne Schneider astutely identifies an underexplored set of questions regarding the nature, political aims, and internal contradictions of British Mandate education policy...Adding to an important body of literature, \u003ci\u003eMandatory Separation\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways of understanding questions of economy, education, and settler colonialism in the study of British Mandate Palestine.\"—Hanna Alshaikh, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Palestine Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs 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, \u003ci\u003eMandatory Separation\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Politics of Denial\u003cbr\u003e  1. Religious Education in the Modern Age\u003cbr\u003e  2. Educational Modernity in Palestine\u003cbr\u003e  3. Education and Community under Sectarian Rule\u003cbr\u003e  4. New Schooling for an \"\u003cbr\u003eOld\"\u003cbr\u003e Order\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Boundaries of Religious Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e  6. Border Clashes\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: The Invisible Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610588049688,"sku":"9781503604155","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mandatory-separation-religion-education-and-mass-politics-in-palestine-paperback-softback-9781503604155","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}