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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.
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.
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##生动而深入的故事描写，加之广博的历史知识的支撑，呈现古今联系对照的参照感与历史纵深感。一个有趣的细节观察，出于对「宗教」一词的敏感语境，中国传统的民间宗教会以「民间文化」「传统文化」「民俗文化」的面目出现大众和传媒视野，宣传时会自动剔除宗教色彩。不止如此，其管理体制也与一般五大教的管理不一样，归于文化部门管理而不是宗教部门。
评分 评分 评分##开头结尾引的都是同一句尚书，而作者对宗教在中国文化里的必需性和政治性的理解其实也都在这句话里了，全书都非常像那一段，“人心惊疑，如居风涛，汹汹靡定，上自朝列，下达蒸黎，日夕放党聚谋，咸忧必有变故。” （确实是个好写手，很细腻也懂递进，说作者写陕西李家有点像刘震云也是夸奖，当然全书最煽情自然是那一句，she doesn't need to participate, she's got faith!）
评分 评分##对20-21世纪中国religion/state历史有一个很有意思、细致入微的记录，虽然有其bias以及忽略的细节。喜欢它的文笔和架构。
评分##深度報導上乘之作，字裏行間敏銳與同情兼具。國家忽而出手忽而利用，宗教作為無法根除的人性天然渴望和推動公民社會的思想與組織資源，在陰晴不定的時局下展現出堪比Great Awakening的復興。多處細節令人嘆惋，尤其心知過兩年就寫不出這樣的文字了。遺憾在於著眼點和一手材料：穆斯林、天主教徒缺席，對制度化宗教近乎全然規避，從頭到尾一群散兵游勇——或許是不得已的微觀史。
评分##不说立场的问题，民俗志方面的内容很有趣，但是作者对招摇撞骗的神棍是过于同情了。
评分##生动而深入的故事描写，加之广博的历史知识的支撑，呈现古今联系对照的参照感与历史纵深感。一个有趣的细节观察，出于对「宗教」一词的敏感语境，中国传统的民间宗教会以「民间文化」「传统文化」「民俗文化」的面目出现大众和传媒视野，宣传时会自动剔除宗教色彩。不止如此，其管理体制也与一般五大教的管理不一样，归于文化部门管理而不是宗教部门。
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