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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2014]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 177-208 |
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