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id	eprints-20988
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	The official Chinese view of the Uyghur Islamic revival is overwhelmingly dominant. Because of the extraordinary measures taken to shield from international view the actual developments in the region and to silence Uyghur voices, we lack a clear sense of what it is to be a Muslim in contemporary Xinjiang. This article explores debates within Uyghur society about faith, politics and identity as they are revealed through the social media platform WeChat. It aims to disrupt the dominant narratives and enable new understandings of the changing patterns of religiosity and violence in the region. It focuses on the use of social media to access affective experiences of religion, projects of self-fashioning, and the new geographies of knowledge and experience formed as Uyghurs turned to the readily available scripts circulating in the wider Islamic world and adapted them to a very local sense of crisis.
format	Journal Article
author	Harris, Rachel
author_facet	Harris, Rachel Isa, Aziz
authorStr	Harris, Rachel
author_letter	Harris, Rachel
author2	Isa, Aziz
author2Str	Isa, Aziz
title	Islam by smartphone: reading the Uyghur Islamic revival on WeChat
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2018
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20988/