Tension between the Chinese Government and Transnational Qigong Groups: Management by the State and Their Dissemination Overseas
After the suppression of Falun Gong in 1999, the Chinese government carried out large-scale clean-up and rectification activities against a number of qigong groups in China. As a result, founders of some of the suppressed qigong organizations - some of whom had gone abroad earlier - started teaching...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Pages: 194-209 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Qi gong
/ Spiritual movement
/ Transnationaization
B Falun Gong |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBM Asia |
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