Lytra, Vally and Ilankuberan, Arani. 2020. Syncretising ways of doing, seeing and becoming in children's faith-inspired text-making and conversations around texts at home. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(5), pp. 433-449. ISSN 1470-8477 [Article]

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This article examines the faith-inspired text-making of two siblings of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu/Saiva heritage growing up in present-day London and the post- production conversations around the texts with one of the authors. Conceptually, we combine insights from syncretic literacy studies with an approach to faith as cultural practice. We argue that a syncretic lens can be enriched by an explicit focus on children’s faith-inspired texts as material objects that open up possibilities for new meaning making. Our analysis points to the exploration of faith identities as a process of becoming that can be open-ended and potentially unpredictable.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1781875
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Intercultural Communication on 20th July 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2020.1781875
Keywords:	Syncretic literacies, faith as cultural practice, faith identities, team ethnography, scrapbooks
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Educational Studies > Centre for Language, Culture and Learning
Dates:	Date Event 10 June 2020 Accepted 20 July 2020 Published Online 2020 Published
Item ID:	29158
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2020 09:53
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2022 02:26
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29158

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