Between Sacred and Secular Knowledge
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Chinese Muslims
cognitive rationality theory
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Ethnic Minority Areas
Ethnic minority education
ethnographic research
Good Life
Great Mosque
Hui Muslims
Hui Students
Islamic schooling practices
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Local Muslim
Madrassa Education
minority identity formation
Muslim parental attitudes education
Muslim Parents
Muslim World
Muslim's identity
Northwest China
Plural Monoculturalism
Religious education
rural education China
Scriptural Names
Tv Program
Tv Set
Village Cadres
Village Mosques
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032122984
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines how different social forces, including state ideology and policies, religious culture and ethnic identities, and economic market forces, affect Muslim parents’ perceptions and attitudes toward public and religious education.
Combining ethnographic fieldwork and a cognitive rationality framework, this book investigates ethnic minorities’ educational attainment and its shaping mechanisms. Instead of attributing the undereducation of ethnic minorities solely to structural factors such as economic constraints, cultural conflicts and state policies, this study focuses on the critical role of perceptions and expectations through which many structural factors function. The fieldwork in a predominantly Muslim village in northwest China reveals that public education and religious education are complementary in the daily pursuit of well-being. And the study further argues that the practical oriented logic of rural Muslims sheds light on the research of inequality in educational attainment.
The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students studying ethnic minority education in China. Those who are researching on Islam and Muslims’ identity, especially in a multiethnic society, may also find this research insightful and helpful.
Yanbi Hong is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities at Southeast University, China. His research interests lie in social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, and sociology of health and medicine. He has published several papers on the educational inequality and health inequality of China.
