Cox, Laurence (2024) Belgium. In: East Asian Religiosities in the European Union. Brill, pp. 31-47. ISBN 978-3-657-79466-9

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Abstract

Belgium has a small East Asian diaspora, within which the Chinese community is the largest, as well as a long local reception of Chinese and Japanese art, philosophy and religion which led to some Belgians identifying as Buddhist from the 1950s onward. Today there are a significant number in particular of Belgian Buddhist converts in various East Asian traditions, with centres identifying as “Zen” (sometimes in practice Ch’an, Thiền or Sŏn) the most visible, alongside East Asian-led groups. East Asian Christianities, new religious movements, holistic healing and martial arts are all also visible. Research on East Asian religiosities in Belgium is constrained both by a shortage of statistical data and limited scholarly interest.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	East Asian religion; Belgium; migration; diaspora; Buddhism;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	19198
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2024 14:42
Publisher:	Brill
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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