The Chinese Communist Party regards Christianity and Islam as foreign and potentially subject to influence by outsiders.
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background
Explains an official ideological framing that influences state policy toward certain religions.
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism teach that a person's soul continues to exist after separation from the body by death.
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religious_belief
Doctrinal belief about the existence of the soul after death in the three Abrahamic/monotheistic religions.
In Judaism and in Islam, religious teachings emphasize that the body should be left as intact as possible and buried promptly, with ritual cleansing and prayers performed as part of funerary practice.
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religious_practice
General funerary norms and rites in Judaism and Islam concerning treatment of the body and timing of burial.