Revisiting the Madrassa Question in Pakistan: Worlding Lived Religion and Religious Education in Urban Spaces

Author:

Angeles Leonora C.1,Aijazi Omer2

Affiliation:

1. School of Community and Regional Planning, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2. Department for the Study of Religion and Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

The association of madrassas as “breeding grounds for terrorists” is problematic, exacerbated by a lack of understanding of how Islamic religious schools function and contribute to cities and urban social life. Our article provides an interpretative examination of the so-called madrassa question by explaining the urban-spatial embeddedness of madrassas and emphasizing the heightened sense and deployment of religious identities in the quotidian “worlding” of “lived religion” and “lived religious education” of research participants in two madrassa communities in Islamabad, Pakistan. Positioned within the growing research on urban sociology and geographies of the intersections of religion and education, this article examines lived religion and religious education within urban spaces. It discusses ethnographic findings on the performance and reproduction of spatially grounded extrareligious roles, identities, and practices in city-based madrassas. We emphasize the religious and nonreligious meanings people attach to these identities and practices, and how these are manifested, represented, and experienced in urban community spaces. We demonstrate madrassas’ connection to people’s place-making practices and meaning-making as historical processes and purposeful action. Urban landscape, quotidian religious practices, and extra-local political economy are important to linking place, human aspirations, and lived religion in reframing the madrassa question in Pakistan.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Medicine

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