Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

Zhibin Xie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-24353-5 (ISBN)

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This 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.

Zhibin Xie earned his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from the University of Hong Kong His area of research is religion and society, Christian theology and public life in particular, and he has published several articles in Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology, Regent Review of Christian Thoughts and Journal for the Study of Christian Culture.

Contents: Introduction. Part I Theory: The Publicness of Religion and Religion in Public Political Culture: The publicness of religion; Liberal restraint on religion in public political cuture; Criticisms of liberal restraint; Religion in modern democratic pluralistic society. Part II Religion and Its Political Context in China: Religion in China; The political context of religion in China. Part III The Appropriate Role of Religion in Public Political Culture in a Democratic China: A Proposal: Religious liberty and the public role of religion; Religious diversity and Chinese political culture. Conclusion; References; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-24353-8 / 1032243538
ISBN-13	978-1-032-24353-5 / 9781032243535
Zustand	Neuware