A Look at China’s Religious Landscape Omits Today’s Catholics

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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.

If there is one consistency to contemporary Chinese belief systems and practices, it is inconsistency, the author makes clear.