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China Daily, "Mazu, Goddess of the Sea," 2016

A China Daily culture section piece reporting the scale of Mazu worship, roughly three hundred million adherents worldwide by the article's count and about seventeen million believers in Taiwan alone, and covering a separate 2016 documentary on her worshippers. Its strength is a sourced estimate of the tradition's living scale. Its limit is that it is news reporting rather than peer reviewed scholarship, disclosed here rather than upgraded to something it is not.

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Reliability Tier
2
Tier two: a China Daily culture section piece reporting a sourced estimate of Mazu worship's living scale, roughly three hundred million adherents worldwide by the article's count. Its limit is that it is news reporting rather than peer reviewed scholarship, disclosed here rather than upgraded to something it is not.
Notes
Published October 10, 2016, read directly. Cited for the estimate of roughly three hundred million adherents and about five thousand temples worldwide, two thousand of them in Taiwan.
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Publisher
China Daily
Publication Year
2016
URL
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-10/10/content_27009079.htm
Source Type
news
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China, Countries

This source names China directly: "A China Daily culture section piece reporting the scale of Mazu worship, roughly three hundred million adherents worldwide by the article's count and about seventeen million believers in Taiwan..."

Source China Daily, "Mazu, Goddess of the Sea," 2016
Mazu, Deities

This source names Mazu directly: "section piece reporting the scale of Mazu worship, roughly three hundred million adherents worldwide by the article's count and about seventeen million believers in Taiwan alone, and covering a..."

Source China Daily, "Mazu, Goddess of the Sea," 2016
Taiwan, Countries

This source names Taiwan directly: "about seventeen million believers in Taiwan alone, and covering a separate 2016 documentary on her worshippers."

Source China Daily, "Mazu, Goddess of the Sea," 2016
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
  • Screen Works, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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