Chinese Families and Their Encounter with the Secular: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Parents and Their Children in Edinburgh

Abstract The Chinese, both in China and an international migration setting, are commonly regarded as the world’s most secular population. However, relationship between Chinese people Popular Religion is nuanced survey data, more often than not, do not account for plethora of religious activities engage despite simultaneously self-identifying secular. This paper examines supposed secularity immigrant families living Edinburgh. It asserts that although secular, these undeniable activity possess beliefs. Crucially, there a marked difference beliefs pertaining to parents their children, with former being adamant latter willing acknowledge complicated religion