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发表于2024-12-24
The Souls of China pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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.
生動而深入的故事描寫,加之廣博的曆史知識的支撐,呈現古今聯係對照的參照感與曆史縱深感。一個有趣的細節觀察,齣於對「宗教」一詞的敏感語境,中國傳統的民間宗教會以「民間文化」「傳統文化」「民俗文化」的麵目齣現大眾和傳媒視野,宣傳時會自動剔除宗教色彩。不止如此,其管理體製也與一般五大教的管理不一樣,歸於文化部門管理而不是宗教部門。
評分不說立場的問題,民俗誌方麵的內容很有趣,但是作者對招搖撞騙的神棍是過於同情瞭。
評分斷瞭的傳統能接續嗎?在經濟發展以後,精神生活的空虛需要填補,隨之而來的傳統文(zong )化(jiao )的復蘇,外來精(zong )神(jiao)寄托的迅速發展,而這些發展中官方限製外來的發展,扶持本土儒釋道的發展。雖然我覺得作者有點觀點有待商榷,但是能有本描繪當下中國人精神世界的書籍也是不錯的。
評分開頭結尾引的都是同一句尚書,而作者對宗教在中國文化裏的必需性和政治性的理解其實也都在這句話裏瞭,全書都非常像那一段,“人心驚疑,如居風濤,洶洶靡定,上自朝列,下達蒸黎,日夕放黨聚謀,鹹憂必有變故。” (確實是個好寫手,很細膩也懂遞進,說作者寫陝西李傢有點像劉震雲也是誇奬,當然全書最煽情自然是那一句,she doesn't need to participate, she's got faith!)
評分對20-21世紀中國religion/state曆史有一個很有意思、細緻入微的記錄,雖然有其bias以及忽略的細節。喜歡它的文筆和架構。
很惶恐的发现之前这本书的几个书评全部被删了,书的评分也没有了,标记的在看记录也没有了,可能是因为现在这个敏感时候吧!不过敏感的时候似乎越来越多! 总的来说这本书论述清晰,例子也比较有代表性,虽然有些观点不赞同,如湾湾通过ZJ,完成民主。看后会陷入深深的沮丧之中...
評分很惶恐的发现之前这本书的几个书评全部被删了,书的评分也没有了,标记的在看记录也没有了,可能是因为现在这个敏感时候吧!不过敏感的时候似乎越来越多! 总的来说这本书论述清晰,例子也比较有代表性,虽然有些观点不赞同,如湾湾通过ZJ,完成民主。看后会陷入深深的沮丧之中...
評分很惶恐的发现之前这本书的几个书评全部被删了,书的评分也没有了,标记的在看记录也没有了,可能是因为现在这个敏感时候吧!不过敏感的时候似乎越来越多! 总的来说这本书论述清晰,例子也比较有代表性,虽然有些观点不赞同,如湾湾通过ZJ,完成民主。看后会陷入深深的沮丧之中...
評分很惶恐的发现之前这本书的几个书评全部被删了,书的评分也没有了,标记的在看记录也没有了,可能是因为现在这个敏感时候吧!不过敏感的时候似乎越来越多! 总的来说这本书论述清晰,例子也比较有代表性,虽然有些观点不赞同,如湾湾通过ZJ,完成民主。看后会陷入深深的沮丧之中...
評分很惶恐的发现之前这本书的几个书评全部被删了,书的评分也没有了,标记的在看记录也没有了,可能是因为现在这个敏感时候吧!不过敏感的时候似乎越来越多! 总的来说这本书论述清晰,例子也比较有代表性,虽然有些观点不赞同,如湾湾通过ZJ,完成民主。看后会陷入深深的沮丧之中...
The Souls of China pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024