This support does come with caveats and restrictions, however, including the demand that religious leaders support the Communist Party. As a scholar of Chinese religions, these considerable changes are of special interest to me.
søndag 8. august 2021
There’s a religious revival going on in China
The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1921. For most of those decades, the party sought to restrict or obliterate traditional religious practices, which it considered part of China’s “feudal” past. But since the late 1970s, the party has slowly permitted a multifaceted and far-reaching revival of religion. More recently, President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has endorsed continued party tolerance for religion as filling a moral void that has developed amid China’s fast-paced economic growth.
This support does come with caveats and restrictions, however, including the demand that religious leaders support the Communist Party. As a scholar of Chinese religions, these considerable changes are of special interest to me.
This support does come with caveats and restrictions, however, including the demand that religious leaders support the Communist Party. As a scholar of Chinese religions, these considerable changes are of special interest to me.
