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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 1(2), pp. 59 - 64
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010203
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Peng鈥檚 Proposal for Special Religious Zones in China
Michael P. Ferber*
Geography and Environmental Studies, The King鈥檚 University College, 9125 50 St. Edmonton, AB T6B 2H3
ABSTRACT
This article discusses the potential of special religious zones to enhance social harmony in China and serve as 鈥榰seful opium鈥�. Liu Peng has suggested that special religious zones could be created in the same way that special economic zones helped to open China to free economic markets. These special religious zones would encompass a geographical region in which the country's typical or national laws would be modified as a type of social experiment in religious freedom. Two particular areas special religious zones could enhance social harmony include solutions to social crises caused by regional migration and to China鈥檚 growing environmental crisis.
KEYWORDS
Religion, China, Religious Zones, Christianity
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Michael P. Ferber , "Peng鈥檚 Proposal for Special Religious Zones in China," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 59 - 64, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010203.
(b). APA Format:
Michael P. Ferber (2013). Peng鈥檚 Proposal for Special Religious Zones in China. Sociology and Anthropology, 1(2), 59 - 64. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010203.