Medhi Djaadi or the smile of the convert / China: the Party faced with the rise of religions

Poster of the play "Coming Out" with Medhi Djaadi and the cover of the book "The brilliant revival of the spiritual in China", by Claude Meyer (Bayard).

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By: Genevieve Delrue

1 min

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World Religions - Sunday, February 6, 2022 - 10:10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Paris time)

How to talk about his journey as a convert with humor, self-mockery, depth and benevolence on the boards of a Parisian theater?

In her show 

at the Théâtre du Petit Montparnasse in Paris,

unfolds on this sensitive ridge path the story of her conversion from Islam to Christianity.

Between laughter and smile: a hymn to freedom of conscience.

On the occasion of the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, wide angle with

, economist, philosopher and sociologist specializing in Asia, on spiritual renewal in China, the subject of his latest essay

.

Consumerism, materialism, deep social inequalities, corruption within the economic giant have caused deep disarray within Chinese society, which seeks in religion an answer to the ambient spiritual vacuum.

Faced with this phenomenon: the increased control and repression of the Party.

(*) Claude Meyer: “

” (Bayard).

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