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Antireligious campaigns in China are a series of policies and practices taken as part of the Chinese Communist Party 's official promotion of state atheism, coupled with its persecution of people with spiritual or religious beliefs, in the People's Republic of China. [3][4][5] Antireligious campaigns were launched in 1949, after the Chinese ...
Missionaries were expelled from China in 1949 when the Communist Party came to power, and the religion was associated with Western imperialism. However, Christianity experienced a resurgence of popularity since the reforms under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s and 1980s. By 2011, approximately 60 million Chinese citizens were estimated to be ...
That Falun Gong, whose belief system represented a revival of traditional Chinese religion, [60] was being practiced by many Communist Party members and members of the military was seen as particularly disturbing to Jiang Zemin. "Jiang accepts the threat of Falun Gong as an ideological one: spiritual beliefs against militant atheism and ...
In the early 20th century, reform-minded officials and intellectuals attacked religion in general as superstitious. Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially state atheist, has been in power in the country, and prohibits CCP members from religious practice while in office. [7]
China has the world's largest irreligious population, [3] and the Chinese government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party have conducted antireligious campaigns throughout their rule. [4] Religious freedom is protected under the Chinese constitution. Among the general Chinese population, there are a wide variety of religious practices. [5]
Ye Xiaowen on the role of Marxist thought. Main article: Maoism Marxism–Leninism was the first official ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, and is a combination of classical Marxism (the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) and Leninism (the thoughts of Vladimir Lenin). According to the CCP, "Marxism–Leninism reveals the universal laws governing the development of history of human ...
The Chinese Protestant church entered the communist era having made significant progress toward self-support and self-government. While the Chinese Communist Party was hostile to religion in general, it did not seek to systematically destroy religion as long as the religious organizations were willing to submit to the direction of the Chinese ...
Taiwan criticized that law slamming Chinese Communist Party regulating freedom of religion. [10] [11] [12] Among the restrictions, Article III requires religious clergy to "love the motherland" and "support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party." Religious clergy must also "adhere to the direction of the Sinicization of religion in China."