The Historical Foundations of Religious Restrictions in Contemporary China

The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abolished its total ban on religious activities in 1982. However, the distrust that the CCP feels for religions remains obvious today, and the religious restrictions in contemporary China remain tight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the official atheist id...

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Veröffentlicht: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Jahr: 2017, Band: 8, Heft: 12, Seiten: 1-14
weitere Schlagwörter:B the Chinese Communist Revolution
B state-religion relations
B religious restrictions
B the Chinese Republican Revolution
B historical institutionalism
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