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China 'schizophrenic' on religion
ROME -- China's new Communist Party leadership has a schizophrenic policy toward religions, undecided whether to control them or crush them, says Fr....(Continue Reading) Christians get death sentence: China is cracking down harder than ever on Christians, employing new antisect provisions - Religion - Brief Article
Gong Shengliang, 46, founder of South China Church in the Hubei province 600 miles east of Beijing, recently was found guilty of rape and sentenced to death--although some China analysts say the ch...(Continue Reading)Between secularist ideology and desecularizing reality: the birth and growth of religious research in Communist China
Under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, the scholarship of religious research in China has changed from virtual nonexistence in the first thirty ......(Continue Reading)The Flourishing of Religion in Post-Mao China and the Anthropological Category of Religion
In his provocative critique of Geertz's 1966 definition of religion, Talal Asad (1993) suggests that the very project of defining the category of religion ......(Continue Reading)China syndrome: the persecution of Falun Gong
WALKING TOWARD Chicago's Federal Plaza a few months ago, I saw what appeared to be a rather large aggregate of people engaging in aerobic exercises....(Continue Reading)
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