China deploys Confucius in bid to boost religion controls

[New World Explorer]

China has begun five-day Confucian culture immersion courses for religious leaders in the sage's hometown as part of a campaign to extend government control over faith communities through a process of sinicization.

The ruling Communist Party's United Work Front Department said in a news release issued Monday that the activity was designed to ensure the primacy of traditional Chinese values above all.

"To hold activities here ... is a collective tribute to excellent traditional Chinese culture and a conscious identification and integration with Chinese culture," said the release, posted on the department's website.

Participants pledged to "cultivate the Chinese cultural character of our nation's religions so that our nation's religions are rooted in the fertile soil of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and to ceaselessly and deeply advance the Sinicization of our nation's religions," it said.

 

President Xi Jinping has launched the harshest crackdown in decades on religious practices, especially those viewed as foreign such as Christianity and Islam, while at the same time elevating home-grown Confucianism.

Xi has repeatedly called for religious leaders and believers to be guided by "socialist core values." Party bureaucrats overseeing religion have demanded that key religious tenets and texts such as the Bible and Quran be interpreted "in conformity with the demands of modern Chinese development and excellent traditional Chinese culture."

That's been accompanied with a campaign of removing crosses and bulldozing many churches, destroying mosques and locking an estimated 1 million Chinese Muslims in camps where they are forced to renounce Islam and their cultural traditions.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-deploys-confucius-bid-boost-religion-controls-63313303

[Shawnster]

On 5/28/2019 at 2:00 AM, New World Explorer said:

China has begun five-day Confucian culture immersion courses for religious leaders in the sage's hometown as part of a campaign to extend government control over faith communities through a process of sinicization.

Sinicization, sinicisation, sinofication, or sinification is a process whereby non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture, particularly Han Chinese culture, language, societal norms, and ethnic identity.

 

[well]

2 hours ago, Shawnster said:

Sinicization, sinicisation, sinofication, or sinification is a process whereby non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture, particularly Han Chinese culture, language, societal norms, and ethnic identity.

 

My existence in jw talk has nothing to do with it... Please believe me!  

 

Well, I love Chinese food... 

 

Just messing around... 

[BenJepthah]

Under the current definition of “ Chinese Culture ( Han ) much of Chinese tradition would most likely be excluded. The so called fertile soil of Chinese culture is fertile precisely because it has been historically pleural : With many religious traditions and cultural influences. This is not an attempt to make many religions more Chinese : just more Socialist. 

[EccentricM]

More like "confusion" order...

[New World Explorer]

42 minutes ago, EccentricM said:

More like "confusion" order...

May I improve on your statement?

Con-fusion... 

 

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con¹

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informal

verb

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   persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them.

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   synonyms:

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noun

noun: con; plural noun: cons

1. 1.

   an instance of deceiving or tricking someone.

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   synonyms:

   swindle, deception, trick, racket, bit of sharp practice, fraud; More informalscam, con trick, sting, gyp, kite, diddle, rip-off, fiddle, swizzle, swizz; informalbunco, boondoggle, hustle, grift; informalrort "a public relations con"

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