ABSTRACT
Over the past 25 years during China’s reintegration with the world economy and society, and the gradual shrinking of the state sector, all religions have been spreading, with practitioners in most provinces and social strata, including the urban political and cultural elites. Today, there is a wide spectrum of collaboration, compliance, and contention between state and society, and growing competition among old and new belief systems, with much diversity of outcome in different spaces of this more complex society. This dynamic will continue under the impact of globalization.
