The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China

Abstract Multiple religious belonging refers to the idea that individuals can belong more than one tradition. This article aims explore concept of multiple in modern China, focusing on its pattern as well social functionality gives rise such a pattern. The methodology is developed using structural functionalism formulated by, particular, Emile Durkheim, who investigated how different institutions, practices, and customs come exist because their contribution reproduction integration society. studies functions three units, from small large: family, community, state. It explains China thus consolidates each member’s identity within units.