Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
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Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Foreword; Part 1 The Study of Liturgical Literacy; Chapter 1 Introduction to Liturgical Literacy, or Heavenly Readings; Chapter 2 The Community and its Ethnography; Part 2 The Community and its Liturgical Literacy; Chapter 3 Children; Chapter 4 Parents; Chapter 5 Teachers; Chapter 6 Organisers; Part 3 The Settings for Liturgical Literacy; Chapter 7 Mosques; Chapter 8 Liturgical Literacy in the Home; Chapter 9 Liturgical Literacy and School; Part 4 The Languages of Liturgical Literacy; Chapter 10 Urdu; Chapter 11 Mirpuri-Punjabi; Chapter 12 English.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Investigates the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam as they are shaped, lived and experienced within a typical Muslim community in the United Kingdom. This ethnographic seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such practices which have often been misrepresented and misunderstood.