Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was …

In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China.
Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches …

Among China's restive religious and social groups, Protestants have arguably created the
most sustained structural challenges to the Chinese Communist Party's ordering of society …

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest
and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both …

This paper conceptualizes 'neo-socialist governmentality'as a set of rationalities of
governance that aim to shape, nurture, constrain and guide the autonomy of Chinese …

Faith-based charities are among the hundreds of thousands of non-profit, non-state
organizations that have emerged in China in recent decades. The social service activities of …

This paper discusses Xi Jinping's policy of religious sinicisation (zhongguohua 中国化) and
the subsequent revision of the Regulations on Religious Affairs. I argue that Xi's fear of …

From 2015 onwards,“sinicizing religions” has become the mantra of China's religious policy,
inspiring new regulations and constraining the functioning of religious organizations. After …

Over a period of thirty years, China's relation to its" cultural tradition" or" tradi tional culture"
evolved dramatically. Whereas it was still largely considered nega tively in the 1980s, things …

Religious groups can reinforce, complement, or undermine authoritarian domination. This
article investigates whether high-status Protestant churches act as democratising civil …