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V. Arrests and Trials
Author : Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564320506
V. Arrests and Trials
Author : Sarah Cook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : 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.
Author : Paul T. Babie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788977807
Using the metaphor of ‘constitutional space’, this thought-provoking book describes the confluence and convergence of powers in a constitutional system, comprised of the principled exercise of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of constitutional government. Addressing the issues surrounding the freedom of religion or belief, the book explores the dimensions of constitutional space and the content of this freedom, as well as comparative approaches to defining and protecting this freedom.
Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Author : Human Rights Watch/Asia
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : 9781564322241
- Suppression of cults
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1609807359
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Cheng-tian Kuo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789462984394
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in these societies are deciphered and their implications for religious freedom and regional stability are evaluated. On the other hand, Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam and folk religions are respectively analyzed in terms of their theological, organizational and political responses to the nationalist modernity projects of these states. What is new in this book on Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies is that the Chinese state has strengthened its control over religion to an unprecedented level. In particular, the Chinese state has almost completed its construction of a state religion called Chinese Patriotism. But at the same time, what is also new is the emergence of democratic civil religions in these Chinese societies.
Author : Bob Fu
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1441244662
Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called "The pastor of China's underground railroad," is fighting to protect his fellow believers from persecution, imprisonment, and even death. God's Double Agent is his fascinating and riveting story. Bob Fu is indeed God's double agent. By day Fu worked as a full-time lecturer in a communist school; by night he pastored a house church and led an underground Bible school. This can't-put-it-down book chronicles Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his brethren. God's Double Agent will inspire readers even as it challenges them to boldly proclaim and live out their faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1101870052
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).