Autonomy in Movement: Informal Islamic Activities amongst Hui Muslims in China

NARA Masashi (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) This presentation examines how a Muslim minority can maintain religious autonomy from the contemporary Chinese state that actively oppresses religion. Specifically, it focuses on processes whereby Hui Muslims carry out informal and highly mobile Islamic pedagogical practices in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Recent studies of religious revival in China have tended to interpret it with an assumption that it is possible for religious groups to expan..