Only 1 in 10 Chinese adults said they “formally identify” with a religion, even though many hold religious beliefs or observe religious traditions, a new Pew Research Center study shows.
About 75% of respondents said they had visited the graves of family members at least once in the previous year. Such visits “frequently” involve leaving offerings of food and drink to the deceased and burning paper money at the graves.
These and other practices are viewed as cultural traditions with “spiritual underpinnings,” Pew said, adding that formal religious identification inThirty-three percent said they believe in the Buddha or a “bodhisattva,” an enlightened being. Another 26% said they burn incense “a few times a year or more” to worship various deities, while 18% said they believe in Taoist deities.
Self-reported attendance at religious activities dropped from 11% in 2012 to perhaps 3% in 2021, a result hampered by pandemic-era survey limitations. Identification with a religion dropped from 12% in 2012 to an estimated 7% nine years later. Those figures, Pew said, came from the Chinese General Social Survey conducted by researchers at Renmin University.appears in other guises.
Mr. Xi’s government also has declared groups such as the Falun Gong, the Children of God, the World Elijah Gospel Mission Society and the Unification Church as “xiejiao,” which translates as “evil cults” in English, Pew said.,” surveyed more than a decade’s worth of data, including a 2021 study that researchers admit was hampered by COVID-19 limitations on canvassing.in part because “there may be reason to doubt [the] reliability or completeness” of government statistics.
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