The Religion of the Nonreligious and the Politics of the Apolitical: The Transformation of Falun Gong from Healing Practice to Political Movement

This article applies the conflict-amplification model to the development of Falun Gong. Falun Gong emerged in the early 1990s as a health-enhancing practice and part of the state-sanctioned qigong movement in China. Faced with increasing state suspicion of qigong and fierce competition from other gr...

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Main Author: Liang, Junpeng (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2014]
In: Politics and religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 177-208
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