The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Johnson, Ian
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Johnson, Ian

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor China is in...
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Johnson, Ian

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

$41.22
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Johnson, Ian

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

$41.22
Author: Ian Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor

China is in the midst of one of the world's great spiritual awakenings: some 300 million Chinese currently practice a faith, while tens of millions more follow personal gurus, populist masters and New Age sages. This astonishing revival began in 1982 when the Communist Party pledged to allow what it thought would be a small-scale practice of religion under government supervision. But the faithful have expanded far beyond the Party's expectations: Today, China's cities and villages are filled with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Fueling this resurgence is a popular desire to rediscover a moral compass in a society driven by naked capitalism.

For six years, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with three religious communities: the underground Early Rain Protestant congregation in Chengdu, the Ni family's Buddhist pilgrimage association in Beijing, and yinyang Daoist priests in rural Shanxi. Johnson distills these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle that reveals the hearts and minds of the Chinese people--a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world's newest superpower.

Author: Ian Johnson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780804173391

About the Author
Ian Johnson is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New York Times; his work has also appeared in The New Yorker and National Geographic. During more than twenty years of working in China he has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Shorenstein lifetime achievement award for covering Asia. An advising editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, he also teaches university courses on religion and society at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of two other books that also focus on the intersection of politics and religion: Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in China, and A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. He lives in Beijing.

www.ian-johnson.com
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