Secular-sacred hybridity of ren’ai: charitable organisations, religious networks and ethical identities in contemporary china

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• What: The most fruitful approaches to the study of religion in China do not take religion and secularization to be objective categories or universal processes, but instead explore the ways these contingent categories have functioned in a non-Western religious ecosystem. Most of the research on religious philanthropy in the Chinese-speaking world has focused on several hugely successful Taiwanese Buddhist institutions, including Tzu Chi (Huang 2009; O`Neil 2010; Yao 2012) and Fo Guang Shan (Chandler 2004). Studies of Protestant FBO s like the Amity Foundation (Carino 2016a, 2016b) also provide important snapshots of the sector . . .
  

   

  

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