Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule
Under the Communist Party's sixty-three year rule, religion—the officially recognized traditions of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam along with numerous sectarian groups—may be said to have gone through four stages in China. From 1949 to 1957, state investigation and cont...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 459-462 |
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| Summary: | Under the Communist Party's sixty-three year rule, religion—the officially recognized traditions of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam along with numerous sectarian groups—may be said to have gone through four stages in China. From 1949 to 1957, state investigation and control tightened, and the next decade's (to 1966) implementation of socialist policies severely repressed religion as organized movements that implicated personal thought and behavior. Then came Mao Zedong's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (thirteen years ending in 1979) that, among other aims, sought to eradicate all venues deemed religious. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css067 |