Last month, I spent several days at the Forbidden City, the gargantuan palace in the middle of Beijing where China’s emperors ruled the land for nearly five hundred years. I was there to attend a conference on religion and power in imperial China, but my thoughts were drawn to more contemporary concerns: the plight of the Uighurs in China’s far western province of Xinjiang,
A look at China s religious landscape leaves out today s Catholic scene On: 11/10/2017, By Brian Welter , In: Books
This is the cover of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson. The book is reviewed by Brian Welter. (CNS)
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In The Souls of China, author Ian Johnson shows how China does, indeed, have more than one soul.
The religious landscape is dynamic yet chaotic, as the Chinese people carry not only a 5,000-year history behind them, but also the excesses of the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the year of Mao s death.