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Opiate of the People: A Review of Ian Johnson’s “The Souls of China”
Johan Elverskog on the destruction of religious practice by the CPC in the 20th century, and their encouragement of religiosity in the 21st....
Johan Elverskog
Johan Elverskog is Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author and editor of eight books, including the award-winning Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. He is currently completing a new project entitled The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia.