Therborn 78: "In pre-modern East Asia, religion was always clearly subordinated to the secular rulers, and usually to a this-worldly official ethical culture, which might be summed up as Confucianism."
However, although "East Asia today seems to be relatively secular by Euro-American standards of religious belief, [...] it is hardly secularized"
"Its world is by no means 'disenchanted' [but in actuality is] full of magical forces to be managed"