Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories
 
Creator Zhang, Zhigang
 
Subject — study of religious relationship; interreligious dialogue; religious market model; religious ecological model; religious compatibilism; religious praxism; positive orientating theory of Chinese religious relations.
Description How to deal with the ever more complex religious relationships is not only a significant issue for Chinese central government and the Communist Party but also a cutting-edge topic for the religious academy at home and abroad. Based on the review of the latest internationally acknowledged four theoretical orientations, namely religious market model, religious ecological model, religious compatibilism, and religious praxism, this article proposes an innovated framework, positive orientating theory of Chinese religious relations. The author intends to explore more active thoughts on theories and policies that would particularly reflect on and align with the typical characteristics of religious relationships in Chinese context.Contribution: Based on the review of the latest internationally acknowledged four theoretical orientations, namely religious market model, religious ecological model, religious compatibilism, and religious praxism, this article proposes an innovated framework, positive orientating theory of Chinese religious relations.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor National Social Science Fund of China
Date 2023-11-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v79i5.9224
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 79, No 5 (2023); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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