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| Directors: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy |
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June 11, 2008 - New York, NY
This symposium, directed by Walter Russell Mead and Timothy Shah, explored how China’s various major religious traditions (village-based folk religion, Buddhism, neo-Confucianism, Roman Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, Islam, and new religious groups such as the Falun Gong) are contributing to its economic, social, and political development – and stirring up controversy. It also addressed the ways in which religion is playing a stabilizing and destabilizing role in China at the moment, how Chinese government policy towards religion may be changing, and what the long-term consequences are likely to be for country’s social, economic, and political future.
This event was the fourth in the Religion and Foreign Policy Symposium Series at CFR and was funded through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.
Meetings
Religion and the Future of China, Session One: China’s Dynamic Religious Landscape
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| Speakers: | Brian Grim, Senior Research Fellow in Religion and World Affairs, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life |
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| Fenggang Yang, Director, Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University | |
| Mayfair Yang, Director of Asian Studies, The University of Sydney , Australia, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Presider: | Terrill E. Lautz, Vice President and Secretary, Henry Luce Foundation |
Transcript: Session One of a CFR Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: China's Religious Landscape [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
Audio: Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Session One: China's Dynamic Religious Landscape (Audio)
Video: Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Session One: China's Dynamic Religious Landscape (Video)
Religion and the Future of China, Session Two: Religion and the State
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| Speakers: | Robert J. Barnett, Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, School of International and Public Affairs,, Columbia University |
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| Dru C. Gladney, President, Pacific Basin Institute, PomonaCollege | |
| Rebecca Nedostup, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, BostonCollege | |
| Presider: | Minky Worden, Media Director, Human Rights Watch |
Transcript: Session Two of a CFR Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Religion and the State [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
Audio: Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Session Two: Religion and the State (Audio)
Video: Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Session Two: Religion and the State (Video)
Religion and the Future of China, Session Three: Religion, Civil Society, and Economic Life
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| Speakers: | Adam Yuet Chau, Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of China, University of London |
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| Richard Madsen, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego | |
| Robert Weller, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University | |
| Presider: | Susan R. Weld, Deputy Director, Georgetown Law - Asia |
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