عنوان

Religious Establishment and Regime Survival: The Politics of Religious Education in Morocco and Tunisia, 1956-2010

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TL47928

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Religious Establishment and Regime Survival: The Politics of Religious Education in Morocco and Tunisia, 1956-2010

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sarah J. Feuer

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Bellin, Eva

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brandeis University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

282

Text of Note

Committee members: Charrad, Mounira; Soper, J. Christopher

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-19773-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Politics

Body granting the degree

Brandeis University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This dissertation investigates the politics of religious establishment in the Arab Middle East, as played out in the realm of education. Most Arab countries emerging from colonial rule incorporated formal state sponsorship of Islam into their state- and nation-building projects, as reflected in constitutional stipulations that Islam was 'the religion of the state.' But there has been considerable variation - both between states and within states over time - in the configuration of this religious establishment, i.e. in the way these states have institutionalized religion and regulated religious practice and interpretation. This variation has been evident in any number of policy domains, not least in the realm of education, but an overarching theory to explain such variation has been elusive. Building on recent scholarship, the thesis argues that the nature of religious establishment in these countries has resulted from the interplay of three key factors: i) the regime's ideology of legitimation, ii) the arrangement of opponents and supporters confronting the regime, and iii) the regime's institutional endowment (e.g., whether the regime enjoys a hegemonic party and/or a bureaucracy capable of imposing its will). By analyzing the political processes at work as Morocco and Tunisia regulated religious education, the thesis takes us a step closer to understanding the factors fueling differential religious establishment, and sheds new light on the connections between political authoritarianism, government entanglement in religion, and state-religion relations more generally in the Arab world.

Middle Eastern history; Religious education; Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Authoritarianism;Morocco;Religion;Religious education;Religious politics;Tunisia

Essien, Hannah

Bellin, Eva

Subdivision

Politics

Brandeis University

Call Number

1616758655; 3637210

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[Thesis]

276903

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