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In the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory family portrait of faith in China today - its history, the spiritual customs of its Eastern and American faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China explains to the story of 1 of the world's great spiritual revivals. Following a hundred years of violent antireligious promotions, China is currently filled up with new temples, churches, and mosques - as well as cults, sects, and politicians seeking to harness religion for their own ends. Driving a vehicle this explosion of beliefs is doubt - over what this means to be Chinese language as well as how to live an honest life in a country that discarded traditional morality a hundred years ago and it is searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson first stopped at China in 1984; in the 1990s he helped operate a charity to rebuild Daoist temples, and in 2001 he gained a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. While researching this book, he lived for extended times with underground church customers, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. Along the way he discovered esoteric deep breathing techniques, stopped at a nonagenarian Confucian sage, and befriended federal government propagandists as they designed a remarkable embrace of traditional prices. He has distilled these activities into a routine of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle - a great awakening of beliefs that is shaping the soul of the world's latest superpower.
