Chinese Families and Their Encounter with the Secular

Autor(en)

Joseph Chadwin

Abstrakt

The Chinese, both in China and in an international migration setting, are commonly regarded as the world’s most secular population. However, the relationship between Chinese people and Chinese Popular Religion is nuanced and survey data, more often than not, do not account for the plethora of religious activities Chinese people engage in despite simultaneously self-identifying as secular. This paper examines the supposed secularity of Chinese immigrant families living in Edinburgh. It asserts that although self-identifying as secular, these families engage in undeniable religious activity and possess religious beliefs. Crucially, there is a marked difference between the beliefs pertaining to secularity of the parents and their children, with the former being adamant in their secularity and the latter being more willing to acknowledge the complicated relationship between religion and the secular.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Religionswissenschaft

Journal

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

Band

9

Seiten

186–212

ISSN

2365-3140

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603909 Religionswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/chinese-families-and-their-encounter-with-the-secular(2f876915-850e-42e4-adc9-a729b67fbbe7).html