Introduction. Regulating religious pluralities: Indian and Chinese worlds compared

The Chinese and Indian worlds are both home to a religious plurality that is more vibrant and more ancient than in Europe. The comparative exercise, when it is carried out, tends however to confront each of these two worlds with that of Europe and America, and in an asymmetrical way (the theoretical models coming from the West and being applied either to China or to India). A direct comparison between these two worlds is rarely carried out, for various reasons, including the scientific langua...