Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 01-06 / 2012

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 01-06 / 2012
Author: China Aid Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478207405

China Aid Association, which was founded in 2002 to draw international attention to China's gross human rights violations against house church Christians, monitors and reports on religious freedom violations in China. Drawing on a wide network of sources throughout the country, ChinaAid issues frequent news releases on cases of religious persecution in China. The Midland, Texas-based organization also assists victims of religious persecution to assert their rights and works to promote the rule of law in China.ChinaAid has earned an international reputation as a reliable source of the most up-to-date information about religious persecution and the overall human rights situation in China. ChinaAid founder and president Pastor Bob Fu has testified before many government and international organizations, including various U.S. congressional committees, the European Parliament and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (January-June, 2018)

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (January-June, 2018)
Author: Chinaaid Association
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983547126

This volume of the Chinese Law & Religion Monitor focuses on analyzing China's new Regulations on Religious Affairs and their potential impact on Chinese believers and their religious freedom. The five articles in this journal discuss Chinese church's religious freedom and the liberty to religiously educate. This journal also includes the original documents of Pastor Yang Hua's case, the Chinese government's policies to further deprive Chinese believers of their religious freedom, and the new religious regulations that will take effect in February 2018.

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 07-12 / 2012

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 07-12 / 2012
Author: China Aid Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781481956284

The 2012 Fall-Winter issue of Chinese Law and Religion Monitor contains five papers exploring the subjects of religion and law, citizenship rights, and church-state relations in China. These papers are about China's religious regulations and management of religion, Christianity's advancement of constitutional government and civil society, the influences of marginalized Mormonism on American politics, church-state relations in the Chinese tradition vis-a-vis Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, the early British constitutional government-citizenship society, church-state relations, and classical theories of religious tolerance. Also included in this issue are official documents related to churches and Christians that were persecuted by the government.

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (07-12 / 2013)

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (07-12 / 2013)
Author: China Aid Association
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781493512294

To sum up, the central topic of the four papers is religion, in particular Christianity, and the significance of religious freedom for constitutionalism and social civilization. It is inevitable that the development of Christianity in China, including government-sanctioned churches but in particular the increasingly mature house churches, will exert a broad influence on people's awareness of faith, produce socially progressive ideologies, and as a result, advance China's political ecosystem, civil society, and the rule of law, and promote China's overall social civilization.As some scholars have pointed out, the corruption of human society and the decline of powerful nations, if not caused by interference from outside forces, always begins with ethical and moral corruption within a society. Christianity created a glorious civilization in the West, but today, the Christian-influenced ethical system is facing unprecedented challenges from political pride and democratic bias and is rapidly declining in Europe and the United States. “Desolations have been decreed.”On the other hand, Chinese society is at the point of going through a [process of] fission and re-composition of its civilization; Christianity is sprouting like buds in the spring and roaring like the surging tides. Who can stop such a robust advance of civilization? Not only that, to our great amazement, the ethics of the Orthodox Church is already being resurrected in Russian society on the platform of the church, and this once-glorious civilization is on the verge of shining again. Thus is the curtain slowly rising to reveal a new era in the history of human civilization.

Chinese Law & Religion Monitor

Chinese Law & Religion Monitor
Author: China Aid Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre:
ISBN:

The 2020 Fall and Winter Edition of the China Law and Religion Monitor focuses on China's internet and religious freedom and analyzes the impact of China's internet policy on Chinese religious freedom. This issue includes five thematic articles. One article analyzes the impact of internet technology on religious freedom, and the other four analyze how the Chinese ruling authorities have used the name of national cybersecurity to violate the online religious freedom of the Chinese people from the perspective of China's online religious policy, cyber ideology, and their treatment of Muslims. This issue also publishes five cases involving VPN users, online live sermons, online worship, and the spread of religion on the internet. Original documents, relevant laws and regulations-including "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Preserving Cybersecurity ", " The Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China ", " Measures on the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services (Draft for Feedback Collection) ", " Several Opinions on How to Strengthen the Standardization of National Cybersecurity Work ", and so on-are also included.《中国法律与宗教观察》2020秋冬版聚焦于中国网络与宗教自由,分析探讨中国网络政策对中国宗教自由带来的影响。本期包括5篇主题文章,一篇分析了网络技术对宗教自由的影响,另外4篇从中国网络宗教政策、网络意识形态、以及穆斯林的角度,分析了中国执政当局如何假国家网络安全之名,侵犯中国民众网络宗教自由的状况。本期还刊载了涉及VPN用户、网上直播讲道、网络敬拜、互联网传播宗教等主题的5个案例;以及《全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于维护互联网安全的决定》、《中华人民共和国网络安全法》、《互联网宗教信息服务管理办法(征求意见稿)》、《关于加强国家网络安全标准化工作的若干意见》等相关法规政策原始文件。

Christian Values in Communist China

Christian Values in Communist China
Author: Gerda Wielander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317976045

This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China, Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the new post-socialist Chinese outlook. It shows how although Christianity is viewed in China as a foreign religion, promoted by Christian missionaries and as such at odds with the official position of the state, Christianity as a source of social and political values - rather than a faith requiring adherence to a church is in fact having a huge impact. The book shows how these values inform both official and dissident ideology and provide a key underpinning of morality and ethics in the post-socialist moral landscape. Adopting a variety of different angles, the book investigates the role Christian thought plays in the official discourse on morality and love and what contribution Chinese Christians make to charitable projects. It analyses key Christian publications and dedicates two chapters to Christian intellectuals and their impact on political liberal thinking in China. The concluding chapter highlights gender roles, the role of the Chinese diaspora, and the overlap of the government and Christian agenda in China today. The book challenges commonly held views on contemporary Chinese Christianity as a movement in opposition to the state by showing the diversity and complexity of Christian thinking and the many factors influencing it.

The Battle for China's Spirit

The Battle for China's Spirit
Author: Sarah Cook
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538106116

The Battle for China’s Spirit is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, focusing on seven major religious groups in China that together account for over 350 million believers: Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Falun Gong. The study examines the evolution of the Communist Party’s policies of religious control, how they are applied differently to diverse faith communities, and how citizens are responding to these policies. The study—which draws on hundreds of official documents and interviews with religious leaders, lay believers, and scholars—finds that Chinese government controls over religion have intensified since November 2012, seeping into new areas of daily life. Yet millions of religious believers defy official restrictions or engage in some form of direct protest, at times scoring significant victories. The report explores how these dynamics affect China’s overall social, political, and economic environment, while offering recommendations to both the Chinese government and international actors for how to increase the space for peaceful religious practice in a country where spirituality has been deeply embedded in its culture for millennia.

Chinese Public Theology

Chinese Public Theology
Author: Alexander Chow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198808690

It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that Christians in mainland China have been constructing a more intentional public theology to engage the Chinese state and society, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Chinese Public Theology recalls the events which have led to this transformation and examines the developments of Christianity across three generations of Chinese intellectuals from the state-sanctioned Protestant church, the secular academy, and the growing urban renaissance in Calvinism. Moreover, Chow shows how each of these generations have provided different theological responses to the same sociopolitical moments of the last three decades. This study illustrates how a growing understanding of Chinese public theology has been developed through a subconscious intermingling of Christian and Confucian understandings of public intellectualism. These factors result in a contextually-unique understanding of public theology, but also one which is faced by contextual limitations as well. With this in mind, Chow draws from the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis and the Chinese traditional teaching of the unity of Heaven and humanity (Tian ren heyi) to offer a way forward in the construction of a Chinese public theology.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2010
Genre: China
ISBN: