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More people in China are taking up religious and devotional practices. As they do, they form local organizations that provide a communal identity at the margins of Party control and influence. Karl ...

For half a century, I have been reading and hearing about conferences on interfaith or inter-sectarian dialogue. Despite the resources spent on these events, they have produced limited results. Those ...

The 630 changes exhibit a greater campaign within China toward eliminating all religious belief, according to Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. The renaming ...

The Chinese government banned religion during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. And although Christianity and other religions bounced back in the 1980s and ’90s as restrictions were ...

The state-aligned Catholic Church organized retreats and study sessions for Catholic clergy and nuns in the coastal province of Shandong in eastern China, which, among other things, discussed ...

Chinese spirit mediums in Singapore, an ethnographic study / Ju Shi Huey -- Chinese divination / Choong Ket Che -- The Sam Poh Neo Neo Keramat, a study of a Baba Chinese temple / Cecilia Ng Siew Hua - ...

Works to help readers parse the differences between cultural assimilation and political domestication. The word Sinicization usually means assimilation into Chinese culture, particularly the language, ...

Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part ...