The Pew Research Center's own report backgrounder on the history of government policy toward religion in the People's Republic of China. Its strength is that Pew is a research organization known for methodologically careful, non-advocacy survey and policy research, rather than an organization with a stated position on Chinese religious policy to defend. Its limit is that it is a background summary intended for a broad audience rather than a specialist academic history, so a claim needing fine grained legal or historical detail should be checked against dedicated scholarship.
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Tier one: the Pew Research Center's own report backgrounder, a research organisation known for methodologically careful, non-advocacy survey and policy research. NotesPart of the Pew Research Center's August 2023 Measuring Religion in China report package, this backgrounder sets out the Chinese Communist Party's religious policy from 1949 to the present, including Document 19 of 1982, the Central Committee directive that acknowledged religion would persist under socialism and reopened a bounded framework for organised religious activity after the Cultural Revolution. Tier 1: a research organisation known for methodologically careful, non-advocacy survey and policy research.
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AuthorPew Research Center
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/08/30/government-policy-toward-religion-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china-a-brief-history/
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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