عنوان

Translating Islamic Authority: Chaplaincy and Muslim Leadership Education in North American Protestant Seminaries

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TL48743

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Translating Islamic Authority: Chaplaincy and Muslim Leadership Education in North American Protestant Seminaries

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sajida Jalalzai

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Bender, Courtney

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

316

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-71098-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religion

Body granting the degree

Columbia University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

This dissertation analyzes the education of Muslim leaders in accredited North American institutions. Currently, the only accredited programs that train Muslim leaders in the United States and Canada are Protestant Christian seminaries. Based on ethnographic research conducted at Hartford Seminary (Hartford, Connecticut), Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario), and Bayan Claremont (Claremont, California), I analyze the impact of multifaith educational models on the development of North American Muslim leaders, such as Muslim chaplains, pastors, and spiritual caregivers. I examine the various rationales provided by the institutions in question for the establishment of Muslim leadership training programs at Christian seminaries, as well as Muslim students' justifications for studying at these institutions. Subsequently, I argue that these programs depend on multiple forms of "translation" that render members of distinct religious traditions comprehensible to one another. These multifaith programs require translations of space in order to accommodate the practical needs of members of diverse religious backgrounds, and to generate experiences of inclusivity. I also examine curricular translations, specifically focusing on translations of "the spiritual", given the centrality of the concept within the professional field of chaplaincy. Finally, I analyze translations of debates about gender and authority in Islam into multifaith classrooms. These various negotiations make apparent that the burdens of translation are not equally shared. Within the Protestant milieus in which these Muslim leadership programs take shape, the work of Muslim students is ultimately framed and evaluated within a setting where Christianity provides the overwhelming "logic" of the field. This dissertation thus reveals the inculcation of norms of Muslim authority that align with liberal Christian values, including but not limited to: religious individualism, spirituality (versus legalism), democracy, non-hierarchical forms of authority, ecumenism, and interfaith relationship-building.

Religion

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Chaplaincy;Christian;Education;Islam;Leadership;Muslim

Keim, Katharina E.

Bender, Courtney

Subdivision

Religion

Columbia University

Call Number

1793409663; 10107710

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[Thesis]

276903

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