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Benzhuism (本主教Běnzhǔjiào, "religion of the patrons") is the indigenous religion of the Bai people, an ethnic group of Yunnan. It consists in the worship of the ngel zex, Bai word for "patrons" or "source lords", rendered as benzhu (本主) in Chinese. They are local gods and deified ancestors of the Bai nation.
[398] [399] Around 1.3 million Jews who had once lived under Nazi rule or in one of Germany's allies survived the war. [400] One-third of the Jewish population worldwide, and two-thirds of European Jews, had been wiped out. [401] Death rates varied widely due to a variety of factors and approached 100 percent in some areas. [402]
v. t. e. Antisemitism in the People's Republic of China is a mostly 21st century phenomenon and is complicated by the fact that there is little ground for antisemitism in China in historical sources. [1][2][3] In the 2020s, antisemitic conspiracy theories in China began to spread and intensify. [4][5][6] Some Chinese people believe in ...
Jews of Kaifeng, late 19th or early 20th century. There is an oral tradition that the first Jews immigrated to China through Persia following the Roman Emperor Titus 's capture of Jerusalem in 70 CE. A large number of Jews emigrated from Persia during the reign of Emperor Ming of Han (58–75 CE). [22]
Religion in China (CFPS 2014) [1][2][note 1] Chinese folk religion / unaffiliated (73.56%) Buddhism (15.87%) Other religious organisations, including folk sects and the Taoist Church [note 2] (7.6%) Christianity (2.53%) Islam [note 3] (0.45%) China has the world's largest irreligious population, [3] and the Chinese government and the ruling ...
The Qin (221–206 BCE), and especially Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), inherited the philosophical developments of the Warring States period moulding them into a universalistic philosophy, cosmology and religion. It was in this period that religious focus shifted to the Earth, regarded as representative of Heaven's power.
Sanz Briz himself tells how he was able to save the lives of so many Jews, in Federico Ysart's book Los judíos en España (1973). He is also the subject of the 2011 Spanish television series El ángel de Budapest, based on Diego Carcedo's book Un español frente al Holocausto ("A Spaniard against the Holocaust"). [17]
[2] [3] Chinese Buddhism is the largest institutionalized religion in mainland China. [4] Currently, there are an estimated 185 to 250 million Chinese Buddhists in the People's Republic of China. [4] It is also a major religion in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as among the Chinese Diaspora. [2]