State Office for Religious Affairs (China)

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The Chinese State Office for Religious Affairs ( Chinese  國家 宗教 事務 局  /  国家 宗教 事务 局 , Pinyin Guójiā zōngjiào shìwùjú , English State Administration for Religious Affairs, SARA  - "State Office for Religious Affairs"; short 宗教局 , Zōngjiàojú ) is a to In 2018, the Office for Religious Affairs was subordinated to the State Council of the People's Republic of China ; since 2018, it has been subordinate to the United Labor Front Central Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China . Its director has been Wang Zuo'an (王作安) since 2009, who has also been deputy director of the Central Department for United Front Work since 2018.

History and tasks

As a separate department, subordinate to the State Council, it emerged in 1954 from a ministerial department that had existed since 1951. Approx. 1965-79 you were inactive.

The main administration is divided into two areas, on the one hand responsible for politics towards the religions, on the other hand management tasks like the appointment of members for the people's congress or abbots of important temples. There are offshoots (“Religious Affairs Bureau”) at the provincial level and below. These - their employees are selected on site - are u. a. responsible for registering religious communities, approving board appointments and regulating major events. A tripartite division of tasks is common here. First: Buddhism and popular religion, second: Islam, Protestant and Catholic Christianity, third: minority issues.

The interfaces between the state, i.e. this authority, and religious communities are corresponding societies, such as the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association , Chinese Daoist Society , Chinese Islamic Association and the Buddhist Association .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ China Update 6/2018 | Mercator Institute for China Studies. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%8E%8B%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%89/36988?fr=aladdin#reference- [1] -8426590-wrap (accessed on August 21, 2020)
  3. ↑ For the prehistory cf. the footnote on Welch, Holmes; Buddhism under Mao; Cambridge 1972; ISBN 0-674-08565-5 , pp. 29-31.
  4. ↑ See Kuo Cheng-tian; Chinese Religious Reform; Asian Survey, Vol. 51 (November / December 2011), No 6, pp. 1042-64.