Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 07-12 / 2011

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 07-12 / 2011
Author: China Aid Association
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781468156102

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 01-06 / 2011

Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 01-06 / 2011
Author: Chinaaid Association
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781463713997

The Chinese Law & Religion Monitor is a biannual publication containing policy documents and academic works involving law, religion, and politics in China, with English translation.

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.

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.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012
Genre: China
ISBN:

Christianity in Chinese Public Life: Religion, Society, and the Rule of Law

Christianity in Chinese Public Life: Religion, Society, and the Rule of Law
Author: J. Carpenter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137410183

This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engagement, religion, Christianity, and the rule of law in contemporary Chinese society.

Freedom of Religion in China

Freedom of Religion in China
Author: Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564320506

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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.

Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China

Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China
Author: Fenggang Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004214798

The revival of religious belief and practice in China over the past thirty years, after decades of severe repression, has attracted much attention by scholars. Social scientific studies of religion by mainland Chinese scholars has also increased in recent years, using theories and methods developed mainly outside China. Increasingly, mainland scholars are also debating whether theories and concepts developed in western societies are fully appropriate for the study of religion in Chinese societies. This volume presents a selection of papers by sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of religion on these themes. The chapters include rich field studies of particular religions and religious activities, along with theoretical and historical reflections by scholars inside and outside China on problems and opportunities in the revival of the social scientific study of religion in Chinese societies.