ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that young Chinese Hui Muslims have been attempting to extend their influence through online networks to mobilize Muslim youths and trying to reshape the cultural image of Islam in China. It shows that the ways in which marginalized Muslim youths maintain their religious vision at the national and international level. The chapter suggests that China’s individual religious actors are struggling to survive within state power in the process of religious mediatization. It explores how the China Muslim Youth Club, a Beijing-based Hui Muslim group, has survived under state power and made use of an online platform, the China Muslim Youth Net, to promote Islam as a social force forging a harmonious society, which is aligned to the government’s policy of maintaining social stability. The chapter seeks to provide voice to the marginalized Muslims in the new realm of religious mediatization.
