Religious Experience in Contemporary China

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ID19945108
AuthorsX Yao (0000-0003-1882-4094, University of Wales, Lampeter, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume47
Issue2
Pages44-61
Publication date2006-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Believing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-1425 • E-ISSN: 2053-633X
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/mb.47.2.44
OpenAlexW2141744930
LanguageEN
Citations received28

This book is unique in that it provides data resulting from a four year study of religious experiencing in China today which could radically transform the understanding of the role of religion in contemporary China. The suppression of religion by communist authorities in the latter part of the 20th century is well known but, far less well-known, is the underlying resurgence of religious life within the most populous nation on earth. The research is focused on the Han Chinese who form over 90 percent of the population of mainland China and is undertaken on ten sites across the country resulting in data from 3,000 detailed questionnaires. The importance of this project is that it is ground-breaking research in an almost wholly new context. No previous research on this scale has taken place before and indeed until recently no such research would have been permitted in a state which since the Communist Revolution of 1949 has been deeply suspicious of any manifestation of religious feeling, and in which a wholly atheistic educational system has prevailed

Archaeology · China · Communism · Feeling · Geography · Mainland China · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Demography · History · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology

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