Religion in China Today: Introduction

Overmyer, Daniel L.

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“…From the legal perspective, the Constitution of China in 1982 provides that citizens have freedom of religion. Religious festivals are held, traditional funerals and burial rituals are restored, destroyed images and shrines are rebuilt, priests reappear to organize rituals, and congregations meet to worship (Overmyer 2003). In recent years, the government's attitude toward religious activities has become unprecedentedly friendly, as the party leaders realize that religion helps fill a vacuum created by the country's breakneck growth and rush to get rich ).…”

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Does Religion Mitigate Earnings Management? Evidence from China

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Using a sample of 11,357 firm-year observations from the Chinese stock market for the period of 2001-2011, we investigate whether and how religion can mitigate earnings management. Specifically, based on geographic-proximity-based religion variables, we provide strong and robust evidence to show that religion is significantly negatively associated with the extent of earnings management, suggesting that religion can serve as a set of social norms to mitigate corporate unethical behavior such as earnings management. Our findings also reveal that the negative association between religion and earnings management is less pronounced for firms with closer distance to the regulatory centers than for their counterparts, implying the substitutive effects between religion and the distance to regulators (the proxy for regulatory intensity) on mitigating earnings management. The above results are robust to different measures of earnings management, various religion variables, and a variety of sensitivity tests.

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“…Various religious associations have been restored on the national and local level (Ashiwa and Wank 2006). Numerous temples, churches and mosques have been built or redecorated in towns and villages (Overmyer 2003;Dean 2003;Madsen 2003;Hillman 2004). The next-generation religious leaders are trained in Buddhist academies, Daoist schools, Christian seminaries, and Islamic institutes (Birnbaum 2003, p. 440;Dean 2009, pp.…”

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The Historical Foundations of Religious Restrictions in Contemporary China

Tao

2017

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Abstract: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 ideology of Marxism-Leninism is the main reason behind the CCP's distrust for, and restriction of, religion. However, taking a historical institutionalist perspective, this paper argues that the religious restrictions in contemporary China are in fact rooted in the fierce political struggles of the country's two major revolutions in the first half of the twentieth century. Without the support of religious groups, the Nationalist Republicans would have found it difficult to survive and succeed in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty during the Chinese Republican Revolution in the first decade of the twentieth century. Likewise, without cooperating with a wide range of religious groups, the CCP would have struggled to defeat the Nationalist regime and the Japanese invaders in the Chinese Communist Revolution between 1920s and 1940s. Thanks to the collaborations and struggles with various religious groups during the two revolutions which lead to its eventual ascent to power, the CCP thoroughly understands the organisational strength and mobilising capability embedded within religious groups. The tight restrictions on religious affairs in contemporary China is therefore likely to stem from the CCP's worry that prospective competitors could mobilise religious groups to challenge its rule through launching, supporting, or sponsoring collective actions.

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“…Buddhism has been a major religion in China, and many studies have shown its revival in the reform era (e.g., Overmyer, 2003). One major difference of Buddhism from Christianity is its syncretistic characteristics.…”

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Generalized trust among Christians in urban China: Analysis based on propensity score matching

2013

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Drawing on a recently collected nationwide survey in mainland China, this article examines the average level of generalized trust among urban Protestants. This is the first rigorous quantitative study addressing the relationship between religion and trust in the context of mainland Chinese society. Through propensity score matching, this study also demonstrates how to deal with potential selection bias, a long-time overlooked issue in the sociology of religion. The findings in this article reveal that both male and female urban Protestants, compared with non-Protestants, show a significantly lower level of generalized trust in an average person. A similar pattern was not detected in Buddhists. Finally, urban Protestants in contemporary China on average exhibit a higher level of trust in religious adherents and religious organizations. Taken together, this study provides a preliminary portrait of urban Protestants in terms of their attitudes towards the trustworthiness of generalized others, religious followers, and religious organizations.

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Religion in China Today: Introduction

Cited by 68 publications

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Does Religion Mitigate Earnings Management? Evidence from China

Does Religion Mitigate Earnings Management? Evidence from China

The Historical Foundations of Religious Restrictions in Contemporary China

Generalized trust among Christians in urban China: Analysis based on propensity score matching

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