The Launch of the English-language Journal,Studies in Chinese Religions

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Since 1978, religious life in China has undergone revitalization, and religion's impact on society has tended to be dynamic.

“Since 1978, Chinese religious life has been revitalized, and the effect of religion on social life has tended to be dynamic.”

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Research on religion has grown into a more active field within the humanities and social sciences.

“Corresponding with this, the study of religions has come to be an increasingly active discipline in the humanities and social sciences.”

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Globalization has spurred the intensification of local culture.

“the unceasing increase of globalization actually spurring on the intensification of local culture.”

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Religion is a kind of cultural nucleus that determines cultural character and patterns of development.

“The premise concealed here is this: religion is a kind of cultural nucleus, a thing that determines a kind of cultural character and patterns of development.”

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Both European/North American Sinology and Chinese domestic scholarship on Chinese religions seek to illuminate what makes Chinese culture distinctive.

“Although these two are situated differently and their point of departure and motivation are not the same, they nonetheless both aim to shed light on the distinctiveness of Chinese culture.”