Talk:Religion in China

message: I need to know how many people follow a few religions in China. Can you please consider adding Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism, and Confucianism? Thanks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HaydenBunny (talk • contribs) 20:59, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The pie chart at the top of the page gives approximate percentages, and detailed numbers are buried in the section "Demographics" Sorry that this article is so confusingly organized.ch (talk) ch (talk) 20:06, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Religions 

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This is a fascinating account of how Eid al-Adha rituals led to Muslims/Hui becoming the usual butchers in western China not only for the imperial elite but also for mandatory state sacrifices to the Chinese gods (considered to be meat-eaters if not carnivores) and suspect Commies during the paranoid Nationalist era (since killing cattle could only be a plot to reduce agricultural output and undermine the state). It should probably be introduced here, as well as at Islam in China, Chinese cuisine, and similar pages. — LlywelynII 00:18, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion

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** This is a surprisingly good study compared to Pew's previous ones on the same subject; it summarises key points in the definition, history and regulation of religion in China, and compiles the demographic data from the best surveys of the 2010s, including the most recent ones, the CFPS 2018* and the CGSS 2021. The study also contains the most recent (2014 to 2018) data on counted (not only officially registered; not total including all the unregistered) places of worship in China**.
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--Æo (talk) 13:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New sources 2023 

message: China says the largest religion is Buddhism but this page says it's "No Religion/Chinese Folk Religion". I think one should be updated. Furthermore, I think "Buddhism" should go to Chinese Buddhism and not Buddhism. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 19:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The simple answer is that "No Religion" is not a religion, meaning that it doesn't count. Chinese Folk Religion is also not a single religion, but covers all of the various localized traditional Chinese religions, beliefs and more. Thus as a single religion, Buddhism may indeed be the largest! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 03:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I get your point but I feel like, using that logic, no religion and Chinese folk religion should be removed from this page since the page is specifically about religion. But idk. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 06:27, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: So, after splitting History out, we're still at 20k words. Anywhere from 3 to 8k of this is total fluff, but I think China is rammified to such a degree that we may need all three of Religion in China, Demographics of China,  Religious demographics of China. Certainly seems so, as a matter of sheer practicality. Talk me down from this? Remsense诉 17:16, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: India is being sneaky about it by having Religion in India as well as Indian religions. That seems like cheating. Remsense诉 17:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably the definition "Indian religions" should be made less ambiguous (the adjective "Indic" would probably be broader, and therefore better to refer to the "Indian civilisation", which does not necessarily correspond only to the contemporary state of India), but in this case a separate article makes sense. Furthermore, Indian religions are spread globally today, and there are branches of them which were not even founded in the Indian subcontinent (for instance, the Hare Krishna movement of Hinduism was founded in the United States, while Ravidassia as an identity clearly and institutionally separated from Sikhism first emerged in the United Kingdom if I am not mistaken, let alone the fact that most of today's Buddhism is an East Asian development).--Æo (talk) 17:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further splits