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Introduction: From forced secularization to desecularization -- The theological roots of militant atheism -- Evicting God : forced secularization in the Soviet Union -- Faith in defiance : the persistence of religion under scientific atheism -- Russia's religious renaissance -- China's third opium war : the CCP's struggle with religion -- Keeping the faith : the persistence of religious life in Communist China -- From religious anesthesia to Jesus fever -- Conclusion: Man, the state, and God.

Reflections are offered on the 1986 prediction by the founding editor of this journal that the years 1976-1980 marked a turning point in China's religious policy & the beginning of its move toward religious freedom. Here, the journal's incoming editor reassessed the situation in China today in light of its current policy toward religion & degree of religious freedom. Highlights of the author's recent meeting with sociologist Peter L. Berger & Ye Xiaowen, director of China's State Administration of Religious Affairs, are reported. K. Hyatt Stewart

Common religious, cultural, and ethnic bonds can hold communities together, while differences along these same lines often lead to calls for national independence, complicate nation building, and confound inter-communal peacemaking efforts. In particular, when religious differences exist between groups in conflict there is a marked tendency for such differences to become emphasized. This is not to say that religion is the root cause of all internecine and inter-communal conflict, which certainly is not the case. But conflicts become fundamentally altered as they rage on, and factors that were at the root cause of a conflict at its outset may no longer be the primary causes in later stages. That is, once conflicts have significantly evolved, thepriorcauses may no longer be theprimarycauses.