“Daoists, as much as devotees of all other religions in China, are severely affected by the Sinicization policies,” writes Karine Martin in the newsletter Bitter Winter (December 19–20). In an adaptation from her forthcoming book, Martin reports that the increasing restrictions against religions, started in 2018, have widened to target religious schooling and the times, […]
■ The current issue of Pneuma (46), the journal of Pentecostal studies, is devoted to higher education in Pentecostalism, a movement where tensions over higher learning persist despite institutional progress. While Pentecostalism has a reputation of discouraging higher education, denominations and even congregations in this tradition developed many Bible schools, seminaries, and most recently colleges […]
