Date: 19-Aug-2008 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Heavenly Readings: Rosowsky E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Heavenly Readings
Subtitle: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Published: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
This ethnographic study investigates for the first time in any significant depth 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. It seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such practices which have often been misrepresented and misunderstood.