china religion in the news
Almost all Taiwanese, even the 21% who do not consider themselves religious, engage in religious practices. http://bit.ly/8Ckqhk #
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China is pulling Avatar from the cinemas to make way for the biopic of Confucius http://bit.ly/btVyY0 # China Is Leading the Race to Make Renewable Energy – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/9ntP4F #
View Articleavatar vs. confucius
What do you do, as a Chinese film board, when the Hollywood science fiction film Avatar smashes Chinese box office records in its first three weeks in theaters, when online chat sites are buzzing about...
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Avatar is seen by Chinese people as a fable regarding the power of the state over local communities http://bit.ly/aVIYZW @sidneyeve #
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The Daoist Chiao (Jiao) Video | Michael Saso http://bit.ly/alGeye #
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A Daoist temple in Taiwan with statues of Jesus, Mohammed, Laozi and Buddha http://bit.ly/bVrni2 # Photos of crowds of worshippers at the Guiyuan Temple worshipping the God of Wealth ???...
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Daniel Bell's latest essay on the status of Confucianism in contemporary China http://bit.ly/9BCzS9 # Ian Johnson's great article on the biggest single set of murals in China, dedicated to the Daoist...
View Articledaoism’s quest for relevance
In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, “Is Daoism is losing its way?” He writes: Today, Buddhism is regaining its traditional place as the largest religion in Chinese society....
View Articlechinese religions and economic sustainability
In Sunday’s New York Times, Wayne Arnold published a column on the perennial topic “rethinking the measure of growth.” The story concerns attempts by Asian economists to come up with alternatives to...
View Articlegreen china rising
As the trailer for this new documentary from Mandarin Films makes clear, the global environmental crisis will be solved in China, not in America, for the simple reason that China has no other option....
View Articledaoism and technological innovation
As China overtakes Japan to be recognized as the world’s second largest economy, it is inevitable that Chinese religions will undergo change and transformation. But since Marx infamously compared the...
View Article“best to be like water”: tsunamis, religion and non-human agency
It’s been three weeks since the devastating tsunami in Japan, and I am still haunted by the familiar phrase from Daode jing ch. 8: Best to be like water, Which benefits the ten thousand things And does...
View Articlereligious diversity and ecological sustainability
For the past six months I’ve been working with Dan Smyer Yu from the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity on a conference which is finally taking place next week at Minzu University...
View Articlethe business of religion: buddhism, stock markets and the “authenticity” of...
A recent news story on Reuters, headlined Thou Shalt Not Launch IPOs, China tells temples, reports that the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) has issued an injunction against temples...
View Articlereligion, nature and urbanization among china’s ethnic minorities
In June this year Ian Johnson published a major report in the New York Times on China’s plans to urbanize 250 million citizens over the next decade or so. This drive continues the decades-long story of...
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