Tradicinë Kinu Religija: Vienybë Ávairovëje Ar Pliuralistiškumas?
The Traditional Religion in China: It’s Unity in multiplicity or Pluralism?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze some features of traditional Chinese religion, namely, the classification of religions and deities, the bureaucratization of deities, the understanding of the human soul in one’s afterlife, as they were interpreted in the contradictory ways by Western sinologists. Those features are taken here as some organizing factors of Chinese religion, in order to answer the question whether they are helpful for the formation of some unity in the multiple practices and beliefs, especially from Song dynasty (X-XIII century) when such a formation was seen by imperial government as the means for the controlling of vast population.

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