Religion as an object of state power: The People's Republic of China and its domestic religious geopolitics after 1978

Lin, Weihsuan

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.09.003

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“…Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party has reasons to fear that religion can be used as a tool to weaken or divide the country [7] [12]. More recent research works, tend to criticise the Chinese approach towards the protection of religious liberty.…”

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Freedom of Religion and Conscience in China and Russia: Searching Fornew Commons

Shumakova

Titova

2023

IJLCW

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The main hypothesis of this article is a possibility of creating a new conventionbyChina and Russia for protecting the fundamental human right to freedom of religion and conscience on a new international level, independent from the West. The need of developing such a convention or even a new international organization is conditioned by the withdrawal of Russia from the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights. We suggest that this cooperation can be beneficial for both parties because it should help secure their sovereignty and improve the implementation of national legislations. The aim of our research is to propose measures of increasing the efficiency of realization of freedom of religion and conscience in China in Russia. In oder to reach it, we employed such methods of legal comparativistics as functional, normative and external comparative analysis andstudiedthe Chinese and Russianspecifics of the legal recognition and protectionof this right. The findingsof our studysuggest that theexisting limitations of itshould be seen as a response to challenges China and Russia have been facing as developing multicultural and policonfessional states. We also discovered that despite its cultural, ideological and political differences, Russia and China share a number of almost identical mechanisms for the realisation of religious liberty.

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Freedom of Religion and Conscience in China and Russia: Searching Fornew Commons

Shumakova

Titova

2023

IJLCW

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“…In China, religious beliefs may reflect traditional folk beliefs, which are considered to be relatively widespread (and possibly underreported; see Yang & Hu, 2012), or growing belief in Christianity or Buddhism (see Stark & Liu, 2011). Nevertheless, China is regarded as an atheist country in which religion is strongly regulated (Lin, 2018; Wang & Froese, 2019), and China ranks among the lowest countries in measures of religiosity (Pew Research Center, 2018). For these reasons, we expect that the China may have the lowest level of endorsement of Religion, and the United States may have the highest.…”

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Profiles of an Ideal Society: The Utopian Visions of Ordinary People

Fernando

Burden

Judge

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Throughout history, people have expressed the desire for an ideal society—a utopia. These imagined societies have motivated action for social change. Recent research has demonstrated this motivational effect among ordinary people in English-speaking countries, but we know little about the specific content of ordinary people’s utopian visions in different cultures. Here we report that a majority of samples from four countries—Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States—converge on a small number of utopian visions: a Modern Green utopia, a Primitivist utopia, a Futurist utopia, and a Religious utopia. Although the prevalence of these utopia profiles differed across countries, there was a cross-cultural convergence in utopian visions. These shared visions may provide common ground for conversations about how to achieve a better future across cultural borders.

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A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”

Savić

2023

Political Geography

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Religion as an object of state power: The People's Republic of China and its domestic religious geopolitics after 1978

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Freedom of Religion and Conscience in China and Russia: Searching Fornew Commons

Freedom of Religion and Conscience in China and Russia: Searching Fornew Commons

Profiles of an Ideal Society: The Utopian Visions of Ordinary People

A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”

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