Home›Open Questions›What Was the Religion-Specific Death Toll of the Cultural Revolution?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Religion-Specific Death Toll of the Cultural Revolution?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Religion-Specific Death Toll of the Cultural Revolution?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-religion-specific-death-toll-of-the-cultural-revolution.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Religion-Specific Death Toll of the Cultural Revolution?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-religion-specific-death-toll-of-the-cultural-revolutionCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-religion-specific-death-tol, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Religion-Specific Death Toll of the Cultural Revolution?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-religion-specific-death-toll-of-the-cultural-revolution}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Cultural Revolution's suppression of Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Confucianism and Christianity is well documented, but no historian has published a death toll isolating deaths caused specifically by anti-religious persecution from the campaign's much larger political death toll, itself estimated across a wide range by different historians.What would resolve this A study disaggregating Cultural Revolution-era deaths by the target's religious identity or role, comparable to the campaign-specific tallies that exist for other twentieth-century religious persecutions elsewhere in the atlas.OpenModern Chinese historyFenggang Yang, Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist RuleCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Cultural Revolution, Religious Events Well-attested Source Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist RuleFenggang Yangtier 1SourcesReligion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Ruletier 1Fenggang Yang, Oxford University Press, 2011Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year