China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 45
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781107282063
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107053373
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Research was conducted over a ten-year period, including intensive fieldwork in northwest China (2009-2011). The book argues that Chinese Muslims have their own form of sharia and that its relationship to state law shapes local and national ideas of authority, secularity, and power. Northwest China is a difficult place to do ethnographic fieldwork given that the region is prone to inter-ethnic and state violence. Erie conducted fieldwork with clerics, and had to navigate a number of challenging methodological and ethical questions. The book integrates theory from law and anthropology in an original contribution to the study religion in contemporary China.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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