Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing Reality: The Birth and Growth of Religious Research in Communist China

Under the ride of the Chinese Communist Party, the scholarship of religious research in China has changed from virtual nonexistence in the first thirty years (1949–1979) to flourishing in the reform era (1979-present). Moreover, the predominant view on religion has moved away from militant atheism t...

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Main Author: Yang, Fenggang (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2004
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2004, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-119
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