ABSTRACT
The descriptive analysis of the characteristics of religion and its political context in China in Part II provides us with a background for considering the model of religion in public political culture in a democratic China. The nature of the potentially positive participation of religion in politics has not been widely understood and accepted in China due to the limitations imposed by the state and its religious policy. When we talk about religion taking a role in public political culture in China, we usually presuppose the context of democratic politics, which is yet to come into being. Although the present government claims that it follows a democratic model with Chinese communist characteristics, this model would need to be transformed in terms of the participation of religious voices in public and political life.
