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Well-documented crackdowns on religious freedom in China, especially against Muslims and Christians, only show part of Beijing’s religious policy. Another side involves state support for “indigenous ...

Drawing on representative survey data collected in Taiwan, this study examines the effects on volunteering of Chinese folk religion. We find (1) practicing ancestor worship lowers people's likelihood ...

Historically, religion was an integral part of Chinese life. Across the nation’s cities and countryside spread an archipelago of temples large and small. On temple holidays, some organized processions ...

Buddhism originated around the fifth century B.C.E. in India, but today, more Buddhists live in China than India. Han Buddhism, the dominant branch of Buddhism in China, has blended with local belief ...

Authorities in a southern region of China near Vietnam’s border have continued a crackdown on ethnic minority communities with forcible evictions and relocation, allegedly to save them from ...

Chinese spirit mediums in Singapore, an ethnographic study / Ju Shi Huey -- Chinese divination / Choong Ket Che -- The Sam Poh Neo Neo Keramat, a study of a Baba Chinese temple / Cecilia Ng Siew Hua - ...

Cemeteries are monuments to the past — to history, to our ancestors, and to our cultural traditions. In short: They are not a place traditionally associated with breaking news. It is odd, then, that ...