Secularity and Transformation of the Faith-Based Community: Ethnography of the Religious Charity of Baha’i in Macau

Since the 1970s, religious charities in Chinese communities have gradually become public and rational, transforming from previously raising donations for the temples or disaster relief. Even in mainland China, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam all began to enter the secular society after the 1980s a...

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Authors: Jing, Yanchun (Author) ; Han, Yongjing (Author) ; Zhu, Jian'gang (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 12
Further subjects:B Baha’i
B China
B Macau
B religious charity service
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