Definition
Chinese new religions can be seen as any institutionalized religious tradition that has created a new form and/or a new sense of context based on traditional religions found in China. By traditional religions of China, we refer mainly to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism as well as the Chinese synthesis of them, the 三 教 Sanjiao or Three Teachings. Here we have in mind religions born since the nineteenth century in Chinese culture from this great repertoire mentioned above, and especially those who arrived in Latin America (LA).
Introduction
According to the scheme presented by Irons (2006b), there are two possibilities for the origin of new religions in China: (1) by force of external cultural influences (Buddhism, Christianity, ethnic religions, etc.) or (2) by borrowing and synthesis of existing cultural systems, usually with creative leaders. Thus, the creation of new religions in China has the hallmark of the processes of adaptation of new elements and synthesis of...
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da Costa, M.O. (2019). Chinese New Religions. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_208
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