Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism

Authors

  • Dilmurat Mahmut McGill University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201951142

Keywords:

religious knowledge and education, religious extremism, China, Uyghurs, policies and rhetoric

Abstract

As a secularist state, China has always been highly sensitive about religious traditions, particularly Islam. During the late 1990s and especially after the 9/11 terrorist events, the government rhetoric has been to equate the Islamic knowledge and identity with violent ethnic separatism, and more recently extremism and terrorism (Roberts, 2016, 2018). Thus, the Uyghurs

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Published

2019-02-28

How to Cite

Mahmut, D. (2019). Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism . FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201951142

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): Religious Identity and Education: A Response to Contemporary Global Pressures

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