Using Religion to Resist Rural Dispossession

A Case Study of a Hui Muslim Community in North-west China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8119084
AutoresQiangqiang Luo (autor correspondente), Joel Andreas (0000-0002-3992-9621)
Ano2016
Volume226
Páginas477-498
Data de publicação2016-04-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe China Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-4439 • E-ISSN: 1468-2648
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305741016000321
OpenAlexW2344385685
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas41

In this paper, we examine the role played by religion in a struggle waged by Hui Muslim villagers against land expropriation. Religion can provide powerful resources for protest movements, especially for religious minorities, but it can also be dangerous. This is particularly true in China where the state has had little toleration of autonomous organization and has long been suspicious of religious organization, especially among ethnic minorities. Scholarly literature about collective action by religious minorities in China has focused on protests about cultural and political issues – and the repression of such protests – but there has been relatively little scholarship about protests by religious minorities over economic issues. The number of protests over economic conflicts has increased in recent years, and the state has been more tolerant of economic than of political protests. These conditions have shaped the following questions: what happens when villagers employ religious ideas and use religious organization to advance economic demands? How effective are religious ideas and organization as tools of mobilization? How do government authorities respond

China · Collective action · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Expropriation · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Religious organization · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Toleration · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law