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100% 100%
100.00%

80.00%
60.97%
60.00% 55% 52%

35.00% 37%
40.00% 31.77%
20.00% 9% 11% 4.89%
0% 0% 2.40%
0.00%
Catholicism Hinduism Islam Protestantism Seth

Fulfil social requirements (family tradition, societal expectations, etc.) 满足社会要求（家庭传统，社会期
望等）
Not sure why I have a religion. 不清楚自己为什么信仰宗教

Religion is my moral guide.（援引教义）做为我的道德规范

Spiritual reasons 寻求精神寄托

Figure 3.5. Reasons to have a religion among respondents who have converted.

In terms of conviction, the responses obtained are different from the survey

conducted on TCR adherents. The percentage of respondents who strongly believe in their
religion is high. As shown in Figure 3.6, more than 60 percent of the respondents who believe

in Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam have such a tendency. Only about one third of them
are situational believers. None of the respondents who are Catholics and Muslims claim they
do not believe in their religion and only 4.88 percent or only one respondent who claims to

be a Protestant does not believe in his religion. Meanwhile, the respondent who has
converted to Hinduism seems to be agnostic. His or her response to this question shows the

conviction is modest. Meanwhile, the “Seth” respondent does not believe in his religion.
Nevertheless, these two responses cannot represent Chinese who have converted to
Hinduism or Seth since there is only one respondent from each of these religions.

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