A Pew Research Center analysis, part of its August 30, 2023 "Measuring Religion in China" project, drawing on the Chinese General Social Survey and China Family Panel Studies to describe Taoist and Confucian belief and practice among Chinese adults, expressly distinguishing very low formal religious identification from far higher rates of related belief and practice, since neither tradition is organized around membership in the way Pew's Abrahamic-tradition surveys assume.
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Part of Pew Research Center's dedicated August 30, 2023 "Measuring Religion in China" project, which analyzes the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS, nationally representative, covering nearly all of mainland China) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) rather than fielding a single Pew-branded instrument; the report is explicit that no organization collects formal membership statistics for Taoists or Confucians and that Chinese respondents rarely classify either tradition as zongjiao, religion, so the numbers below measure belief and practice, not affiliation, and the report says so throughout. Citation
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/08/30/confucianism-taoism-and-chinese-folk-religions/
Source TypeDemographic study
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- Religions, 24 claims: 21 well-attested, 3 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Deities, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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