author: fenggang yang

Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts

... the official patriotic associations may venture out to proselytize at unapproved underground churches. Meanwhile, many groups in the gray market ... red market of religion is restricted and the black market is suppressed, a gray market will ...

State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies

... the 'red market.' Underground religious groups and activities comprise the 'black market.' Legally ambiguous groups and activities comprise the 'gray market.' The group dynamics in the three markets are different. The Bailin temple has been ...

Religion in China: Survival and Revival Under Communist Rule

... the semireligious qigong replaced Maoism as an outlet for religious zealotry. Proposition 2 To the extent that a red market of religion is restricted and a black market of religion is suppressed, a gray market of religion will emerge. The ...

Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies

Chris White, Fenggang Yang. A red market of religion includes the five legal religions which the CCP approves: Buddhism, Catholicism, Taoism (also Daoism), Islam, and Protestantism under the label of patriotic associations. The red market ...

Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond

... Confucian values in mainstream society and thereby control the leadership of culture. The other objective is to change the ... Confucian culture is an all-inclusive system. It is a knowledge sys- tem, an ethical value system, a political ...

Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China: Methodology, Theories, and Findings

... Tablet Fair. The evolution of the Dragon Tablet Fair did not remove the tension that existed between the Fair and the government and state ideology. Officially labeled a form of “superstition,” the Dragon Tablet Fair was still looked ...

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