Diversity without Pluralism: Religious Landscape in Mainland China

The paper explores religious diversity and pluralism in the religioscape of mainland China with three examples. While religious diversity is de facto practice, “religious pluralism” is not socially recognised, culturally legitimised, or discursively institutionalised. On the one hand, state co-optio...

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Main Author: Liang, Yongjia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-11
Further subjects:B Religious Diversity
B China
B Religious Pluralism
B religioscape
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