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Chinese turn to religion to fill a spiritual vacuum

By Alliance Alert

NPR: "Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place. In the country's first major survey on religious beliefs, conducted in 2006, 31.4 percent of about 4,500 people questioned described themselves as religious. That amounts to more than 300 million religious believers, an astonishing number in an officially atheist country, and three times higher than the last official estimate, which had largely remained unchanged for years."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).