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Xu Jialu, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress, and an alumnus of Beijing Normal Univeristy, will be dean of IASHR. [Pierre Chen / China.org.cn]

Christianity and Islam are also heavily represented across China and numbers of followers of both religions are on the rise. Christianity took root partly as a result of the work of the Italian missionary and scholar Mateo Ricci who, ironically, spread the gospel as major clashes between China and the West were gestating.

China's rich religious heritage, its creativity, adaptation and evolution, provides huge scope for academic study and research but, so far, compared with other countries China has done little to preserve these cultural riches.

But voices urging the restoration of traditional culture are gaining more and more of a hearing, and the development of specialized academic studies of religion is a logical development.

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