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Title: The American interest in Islamic schooling : a misplaced emphasis?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Education, Terrorism
Description: Since 2001, many American intellectuals and policymakers have blamed terrorism and conflict on Middle Eastern educational systems, which they claim do little but indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiment. Pressure has been put on many cou...

Title: The hexis of interpretation : Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Ritual, Education
Description: This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a ...

Title: Islam and the politics of enchantment
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism, Education
Description: The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counterclaims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programs for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing t...

Title: The political economy of religious commodities in Cairo
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Anthropology’s rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from praye...

Title: Seeking the seeker : frameworks for understanding Islamic commodities
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2005
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Contemporary Muslim criticisms of the commodification of religion are similar in some ways to the sociology of culture formulated by members of the Frankfurt School of the mid-twentieth century, particularly Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as i...

Title: Signposts along the road : monumental public writing in Egypt
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public sig...

Title: The varieties of secular experience
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Secularism, Religion
Description: Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...

Title: Violence and the rhetoric of images
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
Description: This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...

Title: Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 1999
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism
Description: In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...