China continues to violate the right to freedom of religion, although the worst forms of persecution -- long-term imprisonment and physical abuse of religious activists -- appear to have eased ...

When Emperor Ming saw the Buddha in a dream, he sent a mission to India, triggering a chain of events that led to Buddhism’s ...

This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and ...

China has “systematically” changed the names of hundreds of villages with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a ...

More than 2,000 people have taken part in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha, lent by China, to a shrine in Bangkok ...

China’s top political adviser calls to deepen ‘sinicisation of Christianity’ Leaders of China’s Christian groups should ‘adhere to the direction of sinicisation of Christianity’, core ...