ABSTRACT
Media and technology are permeating cultural and official sectors in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Recent publications and research projects have been dedicated to addressing and assessing this phenomenon.1 However, in these studies, scholars have limited their analyses mostly to the intersections between media and government, political propaganda and the issue of nationalism. Yet media affects all spheres of daily life in China, including the more or less private sphere of religion. The use of Weibo or other blog servers by religious leaders in China, entire TV channels owned and run by Buddhist organizations in Taiwan, the recurrence of religious symbols in commercial advertising and the production of movies on religious leaders from the past are just a few examples of how different forms of media have pervaded the domain of religion, and at the same time, features of religion are present in state or private media.
