Religious Experience in Contemporary China
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- ISBN 9780708320358
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2008
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is unique in that it provides data resulting from a four year study of religious experiencing in China today which could radically transform the understanding of the role of religion in contemporary China. The suppression of religion by communist authorities in the latter part of the 20th century is well known but, far less well-known, is the underlying resurgence of religious life within the most populous nation on earth. The research is focused on the Han Chinese who form over 90 percent of the population of mainland China and is undertaken on ten sites across the country resulting in data from 3,000 detailed questionnaires. The importance of this project is that it is ground-breaking research in an almost wholly new context. No previous research on this scale has taken place before and indeed until recently no such research would have been permitted in a state which since the Communist Revolution of 1949 has been deeply suspicious of any manifestation of religious feeling, and in which a wholly atheistic educational system has prevailed.
Xinzhong Yao is Emeritus Professor of Religion and Ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London. Paul Badham is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.
