1st Edition

Creating a Shared Moral Community The Building of a Mosque Congregation in London

By Judy Shuttleworth Copyright 2023
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK. The life of the mosque is described through religious practice, communal activities and informal encounters and the history and ideas that shaped the moral world and thinking of the Indo-Guyanese who built it. Marked by a double diaspora experience... Read more
1. Introduction

2. The Mosque, its Congregation, and its History

3. Praying Together

4. Creating Unity Through Words – Sermons at the Mosque

5. Beyond Friday Prayer – The Life of the Community

6. Reflective Capacity and the Challenges of Diversity

7. An Independent Religious Teacher

8. Encountering New Forms of Religious Thinking

9. Pedagogy, socialisation and the transmission of a moral sensibility

10. Conclusion

Biography

Judy Shuttleworth has worked as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in community and hospital settings in the National Health Service, in the UK. Her previous publications are in the field of clinical work and infant observation. Her interest in the social and cultural context of mental health services led to an MSc in medical anthropology (University College London) and the PhD from the London School of Economics on which this book is based.