Chinese people, in other words, are more religious in their practices than in their identities or beliefs. The challenges of measuring religion in China. Some background information is useful for ...

With the takeover of China by the communists under Mao Zedong in 1949, the country became an officially atheist state, and brutal oppression of all religion, including the Catholic Church, followed.

Officially, this does not exist as a religion in China but instead is a catch-all ... again, that’s why I wanted to show the—(laughs)—kind of the map of pipelines, is because, you ...

A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese.

Since 2004, Yang has led many summer institutes and organized a series of empirical research projects on religion and Chinese society with the goal of training new scholars and rallying well-known ...