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Irreligion and antireligious persecution. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. Religion in China ( CFPS 2016) [1] [2] [note 1] No religion / Chinese folk religion (73.56%) Buddhism (15.87%) Taoism, folk sects, and other religious organisations, [note 2] (7.6%) Christianity (2.53%) Islam [note 3] (0.45%)
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2022. Katharina Wenzel-Teuber Translated by Sr. Jacqueline Mulberge SSpS. In our annual statistical updates, we usually bring figures of China’s five major state-rec-ognized religions: Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.
30. Aug. 2023 · Depending on the source used, estimates of the share of Chinese people who can be described as religious in some way – because they identify with a religion, hold religious beliefs or engage in practices that have a spiritual or religious component – range from less than 10% to more than 50%.
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The U.S. government estimates the total population at 1.4 billion (midyear 2022). According to the 2019 State Council Information Office (SCIO) report Seeking Happiness for People: 70 Years of Progress on Human Rights in China, there are more than 200 million religious adherents in the country.
- Introduction
- Freedom and Regulation
- Atheism and The CCP
- Chinese Buddhism and Folk Religions
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Christian State-Sanctioned and House Churches
- Islam and Uyghurs in Xinjiang
- Banned Religious Groups
Amid an economic boom and rapid modernization, religion in China has been on the rise in recent decades. Experts point to the emergence of a spiritual vacuum as a trigger for the growing number of religious believers, particularly followers of Christianity and traditional Chinese religious groups. While China’s constitution allows religious belief,...
China’s relationship with religion has shifted throughout its modern history. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), religions were essentially banned, and followers were forced underground or persecuted as part of a campaign to eliminate “old” customs and ideas. In the 1980s, the CCP acknowledged the Chinese people’s complex relationship with r...
The CCP is officially atheist. The party prohibits its roughly ninety-eight million party members from holding religious beliefs, and it requires the expulsion of party members who belong to religious organizations. Officials have said that party membership and religious beliefs are incompatible, and they discourage families of CCP members from pub...
China has the world’s largest Buddhist population—an estimate of 4 percent to 33 percent of the country’s population (42 million to 362 million people) depending on how religious practices are measured, according to the U.S.-based Pew Research Center. Though Buddhism originated in India, it has a long history and tradition in China and today is the...
According to China’s 2020 census data, the Tibetan region of China is home toseven million Tibetans, more than 90 percent of the region’s population. Nearly all Tibetans in the region practice a distinct form of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of one of the main schools of Tibetan Buddhism and symbolizes Tibetan identity for both T...
China saw a significant growth in Christianity in the 1980s, after former leader Deng Xiaoping opened China to the outside world. Today, Protestantism is the predominant branch of Christianity practiced in China. There are three state-regulated Christian organizations and many underground house churches, though authorities have been cracking down o...
Muslims make up an around 1 to 1.5 percent of China’s population, accounting for around eighteen million people, according to recent estimates by Pew Research Center. China has ten predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Hui, an ethnic group closely related to the majority Han population and largely based in western China’s ...
Several religious and spiritual groups that fall outside the CCP’s officially recognized religions, dubbed “heterodox cults” by Beijing, are subject to regular government crackdowns. The party-state has banned more than a dozen such faiths on the grounds that adherents use religion “as a camouflage, deifying their leading members, recruiting and co...
Religions & Christianity in Todays China, Vol. XII, 2022, No. 2 185 million self-identify as Buddhists, i.e. 18% of the population above the age of 16. 17.3 million have taken the triple refuge (in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha), i.e.
30. Aug. 2023 · Report. |. August 30, 2023. Measuring Religion in China. 1. Religious change in China. (Getty Images) It is unclear whether there has been any significant change since 2010 in the percentage of Chinese adults who identify with a religion or engage in religious beliefs or practices.
