Introduction to the Special Issue on Human Dignity, Religion, and Rights in Contemporary China
This introductory essay to a special issue on "Human Dignity, Religion, and Rights in Contemporary China" provides background material for readers unfamiliar with debates over religion and politics in China today. Political theology in China raises many questions that western readers will...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2019
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Political theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 5, Pages: 361-368 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Human rights
/ Religious policy
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBM Asia NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics SA Church law; state-church law |
Further subjects: | B
Human Dignity
B Religion in China B Human Rights B Religious Freedom |
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Summary: | This introductory essay to a special issue on "Human Dignity, Religion, and Rights in Contemporary China" provides background material for readers unfamiliar with debates over religion and politics in China today. Political theology in China raises many questions that western readers will find familiar, but the Chinese context often requires different answers, so that gaining familiarity with the Chinese discussion can broaden our view of the available options at the intersection of religion and politics. At the same time, seeing familiar questions from a Chinese perspective can illuminate implicit disagreements within the western context that would otherwise remain hidden. This special issue brings together theologians, ethicists, sociologists, and legal scholars around fundamental questions of political order in a rapidly changing society. |
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Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 20, numbers 5/6, August-September 2019" |
ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2019.1631430 |