Religion and China's Welfare Regimes

André Laliberté is Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has co-edited “Buddhism in China after Mao” with Ji Zhe and Gareth Fisher. In 2019, he was Research Fellow for the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” in Leipzig.

• 1. China's social security system from 1949 to 2012.- 2. The main social policies under XI JINPING.- 3. Religious work and philanthropy from 1949 to 2002.- 4. Religious charity and civil society under HU and XI.- 5. The institutionalization of Buddhism since 1949.- 6. Buddhism and the CCP since 1949.- 7. Toward a national Buddhist Philanthropic association.- 8. The duty of serving the Public interest.- 9. A sketch of regional systems analysis.- 10. The nine regions of Han Buddhist Philanthropy.- 11. Buddhist philanthropy from the bottom up.- 12. The REN’AI charity foundation.