Attacks on religion (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Article 88 of 1954 constitution

Promised religious freedom (not practised)

CCP view of religions

Threats to power, obstacles to socialist society

Year CCP invaded Tibet

1950

'Four olds' campaign targets

Old customs, culture, habits, ideas

Laogai

Labour camps for monks & religious leaders

Why CCP targeted Confucianism

Supported traditional structures CCP wanted to destroy

Year Christian missionaries forced out

1953

Patriotic Three-Self Church

Govt-controlled church Christians were forced to join

House-churches

Secret Protestant churches (refused to join state church)

Pastor Samuel Lamb's sentence

20 years in labour camp

CCP view of Christianity

Way for Westerners to control Chinese people

Treatment of Muslim schools

Forcibly closed; children sent to state schools

Islamic persecution during Cultural Revolution

Pigs slaughtered in mosques; imams forced to breed/eat pork

Why ancestor worship attacked

Outdated obstacle to socialist society

After Mao's death (1976)

Traditional practices revived

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