Chinese Law And Religion Monitor 07 12 2013

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 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.

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Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (July-December 2018) By ChinaAid Association In February 2018, China passed its new 'Religious Affairs Regulations' on its citizens. These new regulations impose further restrictions on its people, which now further encompasses unrelenting restrictions pertaining to China's education of its children. In view of this situation, this 2018 Fall-Winter issue of the Chinese Law and Religion Monitor will analyze the current situation of children's education in China. This issue contains the following articles and reports: 1. In Children's Right to Religious Instruction and to Education about Religion, is by Professor of International Law and Religion Jeroen Temperman's expertise in International Law . 2. In Religious Freedom in Education?, Charles L. Glenn challenges the assumption that a faith-based education tends to make students unfit to be citizens of a liberal democracy. 3. Wang Yi's article, Is it legal for the church to run a school? His argument is that the people in China are facing the clash of the Christian faith with the Constitution of China. 4. In When the nest is overturned, can the eggs in it stay unbroken?" An overview of religious education for children in China, writer Meng Yuanxin details the CPC's history of forcing the separation of education from religion and how the children's religious education in China is gradually disappearing from the public-school system. 5. Katherine A. Capps' article, Liberty of Children's Religious Education in China at Risk, analyzes how China is in clear violation of multiple international documents and how these violations ultimately affect the Chinese children's right to religious education. 6. Japanese writer Sato Chitose's article, ZuoTeng Qian Sui, investigates the situation of the support and education of orphans and disabled children in the Christian "house church" and the Catholic "underground church" that are not registered with the government. 7. "Original material of BaFu school Events" focuses on a religious school which is percecuted by local gorvernment for being a religious school. 8. "Notice - Maizhong Academy" -stated that the Maizhong Academy was investigated and told to rectify all their violations, which included them providing education illegally to children. 9. "Notice - Henan Provincial Catholic Patriotic Committee, Henan Provincial Catholic Committee on Educational Affairs" - says plainly that children are barred from entering a place of worship. 10. In Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School, the writer explains the CPC's determination to control the hearts of the Chinese people. 11. In Uyghur Schoolchildren, Parents Forced to Abstain From Fasting During Ramadan, the writer details the intrusion of the CCP into the families right to Religious Liberty. 12. "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's Bureau of Education's Regulations about Banning On-campus Religious Activities" - This document displays the official stance concerning Religious Liberty in China, even before the new regulations came out in 2018. 13. "The Ministry of Education's Opinions about How to Properly Handle Religion's Disruption of School Education in Ethnic Minority Regions" - This is another CCP document that clearly shows the determined and continual restriction of the child's right to religious education. 14. In Discrimination on the Basis of Religion or Belief in Education, is from Christian Solidarity Worldwide conducted a thorough report around the world. 15. it is In part III of Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt's Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. To summarize, this particular issue of the Chinese Law and Religion Monitor contains carefully selected articles and reports that show the obvious disregard for the international human right pertaining to the religious education of children in China.

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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.

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 speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique atlas presents a bird’s-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China’s major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels. The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China’s main religions, as well as the social and demographic characteristics of their respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative, quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in contemporary China. An essential resource for all scholars and students of religion and society in China.