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In China, many religious believers practice or draw beliefs from multiple religions simultaneously and are not exclusively associated with a single faith. [197]: 48–49 Generally, such syncretic practices fuse Taoism, Buddhism, and folk religion. [197]: 48–49
Forms of religion in China throughout history have included animism during the Xia dynasty, which evolved into the state religion of the Shang and Zhou.Alongside an ever-present undercurrent of Chinese folk religion, highly literary, systematised currents related to Taoism and Confucianism emerged during the Spring and Autumn period.
The Chinese folk religion practiced by the Han Chinese who migrated in large numbers in the region by the Qing dynasty, mostly from Hebei and Shandong, has absorbed and developed models of deities and rituals from the indigenous religions of the Manchu and the other Tungusic peoples, making the folk religion of northeastern China different from the folk religion of central and southern ...
Folk religion of southern and southeastern provinces is focused on the lineages and their churches (zōngzú xiéhuì Chinese: 宗族協會) focusing on ancestral gods, while the folk religion of central-northern China (North China Plain) hinges on the communal worship of tutelary deities of creation and nature as identity symbols by villages ...
Surveys on religion in China conducted in the years 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 by the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of the Renmin University found that people self-identifying as Christians were, respectively for each year, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.1% and 2.6% of the total population. [109]
[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]
The changes to the names of Xinjiang villages included removing mentions of religion, including terms such as “Hoja,” a title for a Sufi religious teacher, and “haniqa,” a type of Sufi ...
Religious clergy must also "adhere to the direction of the Sinicization of religion in China." [11] [15] Under Article XII, religious clergy cannot accept overseas appointments or engage in religious activities that would endanger China's national security. Article XVI requires that Catholic bishops be approved and ordained by the Bishops ...