Agents of God : boundaries and authority in Muslim and Christian schools / Jeffrey Guhin.

Agents of God : boundaries and authority in Muslim and Christian schools / Jeffrey Guhin.

9780190244767 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (296 pages).

LC331

371.0709747

Based on a year and a half of ethnographic observation and interviews with teachers and students at four high schools in the New York City area - two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian -, sociologist Jeffrey Guhin argues that these schools use politics, gender, sex, and the internet to separate themselves from the rest of America, a country they view as both a promise and a threat. In examining these boundaries, he describes how the schools use scripture, prayer, and science as a means of maintaining their authority over the students' lives.

Based on a year and a half of ethnographic observation and interviews with teachers and students at four high schools in the New York City area - two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian -, sociologist Jeffrey Guhin argues that these schools use politics, gender, sex, and the internet to separate themselves from the rest of America, a country they view as both a promise and a threat. In examining these boundaries, he describes how the schools use scripture, prayer, and science as a means of maintaining their authority over the students' lives.

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