Freedom of Religion in China
Author: Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781564320506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKV. Arrests and Trials
Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781564320506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKV. Arrests and Trials
Author: Jan Jakob Maria Groot
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Carpenter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1137410183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Paul T. Babie
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-05-29
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1788977807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing 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: Jason Kindopp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004-04-21
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0815796463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing. There were few symbols of religious observance, and the practice of religion seemed a forgotten art. Yet by the new millennium, China's government reported that more than 200 million religious believers worshiped in 85,000 authorized venues, and estimates by outside observers continue to rise. The numbers tell the story: Buddhists, as in the past, are most numerous, with more than 100 million adherents. Muslims number 18 million with the majority concentrated in the northwest region of Xinjiang. By 2000 China's Catholic population had swelled from 3 million in 1949 to more than 12 million, surpassing the number of Catholics in Ireland. Protestantism in China has grown at an even faster pace during the same period, multiplying from 1 million to at least 30 million followers. China now has the world's second-largest evangelical Christian population—behind only the United States. In addition, a host of religious and quasi-spiritual groups and sects has also sprouted up in virtually every corner of Chinese society. Religion's dramatic revival in post-Mao China has generated tensions between the ruling Communist Party state and China's increasingly diverse population of religious adherents. Such tensions are rooted in centuries-old governing practices and reflect the pressures of rapid modernization. The state's response has been a mixture of accommodation and repression, with the aim of preserving monopoly control over religious organization. Its inability to do so effectively has led to cycles of persecution of religious groups that resist the party's efforts. American concern over official acts of religious persecution has become a leading issue in U.S. policy toward China. The passage of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, which institutionalized concern over religious freedom abroad in U.S. foreign policy, cemented this issue as an item on the agenda of U.S.-China relations. God and Caesar in China examines China's religion policy, the history and growth of Catholic and Protestant churches in China, and the implications of church-state friction for relations between the United States and China, concluding with recommendations for U.S. policy. Contributors include Jason Kindopp (George Washington University), Daniel H. Bays (Calvin College), Mickey Spiegel (Human Rights Watch), Chan Kim-kwong (Hong Kong Christian Council), Jean-Paul Wiest (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Richard Madsen (University of California, San Diego), Xu Yihua (Fudan University), Liu Peng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), and Carol Lee Hamrin (George Mason University).
Author: Chinaaid Association
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781721828340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese 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.
Author: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zhibin Xie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1351904663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the issue of public religion and its implications in Chinese society. Zhibin Xie explores various normative considerations concerning the appropriate role of religion in public political life in a democratic culture. Besides drawing on the theoretical discourse on religion in the public sphere from Western academics, it holds that the issue of religion in Chinese politics should be addressed by paying attention to characteristics of religious diversity and its political context in China. This leads to a position of "liberal-constrained public religion" in China, which encourages religious contribution to the public sphere as a substantial component of religious liberty in China on the one hand and proposes some constraints both upon government and religions for regulating religious political discourse on the other.
Author: Bob Fu
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1441244662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTens 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.