Distance from the Islamic world, state-imposed isolation, and the assimilating power of Chinese culture have combined to produce numerous versions of Islam within China.
This lecture will differentiate China?s syncretic ?old teachings? from ?new teaching? movements that have arrived from the Middle East more recently. This lecture not only serves as a case study of the varieties of Islamic practice and theology, it also illustrates a division in Islam between universal standardization and local vernacularization and a wider Chinese cultural debate between local traditions and cosmopolitan modernities.
Admission/Cost: FREE (Members/Children under 12/Students with valid ID) - $5 (Adults)
Location:
San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum
404 Third Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, June 20 - 11:00 AM
For more information, please visit www.sdchm.org
This lecture will differentiate China?s syncretic ?old teachings? from ?new teaching? movements that have arrived from the Middle East more recently. This lecture not only serves as a case study of the varieties of Islamic practice and theology, it also illustrates a division in Islam between universal standardization and local vernacularization and a wider Chinese cultural debate between local traditions and cosmopolitan modernities.
Admission/Cost: FREE (Members/Children under 12/Students with valid ID) - $5 (Adults)
Location:
San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum
404 Third Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, June 20 - 11:00 AM
For more information, please visit www.sdchm.org
