Results for: Yang Fenggang
100 Years of God’s Protection and Guidance (Part 1)
Turning Adversities into Blessings
[…] University of Chicago Press, p. 140-149. William Wood, Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall: The Secret Instinct, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 20-22. Fenggang Yang, “Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald’s: Conversion to Christianity in Urban China”, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44,4 (2005), Blackwell Publishing Ltd., p. […]
Mission Ministry in Hong Kong, Part 2
Sunset or Sunrise?
[…] A Bright Hope Ahead if We Work Together In Hong Kong, the churches have sent about 600 cross-cultural workers out of a total of 0.48 million Protestant Christians. Yang Fenggang has estimated the number of Protestants in China to be 116 million in 2020. If we take the same ratio of sending in Hong Kong, churches in […]
Confrontation or Conversation? The Church and Confucianism in China
[…] Confucianism .Overall, Christianity is still in a position of being culturally discriminated against and has not become an indispensable part of mainstream Chinese culture.1 Purdue professor Dr. Yang Fenggang sees the church in China today not as confronting Confucianism head-on, but rather as helping to inculcate the next generation of believers with Confucian values, many […]
Sinicization: Culture or Politics?
In his incisive Christianity Today article titled “Xi Jinping Is Not Trying to Make Christianity More Chinese,” Purdue University professor Fenggang Yang draws a distinction between Sinicization, or the cultural adaptation of religion to Chinese culture, and what he calls “Chinafication,” a more literal translation of the Chinese term Zhongguo hua (中国化) used in […]
3 Questions: Carol Lee Hamrin
Regarding China’s National Security Commission
[…] hearts and minds of various China watchers and specialists. "3 Questions" will be published on an occasional basis. Watch for the next one—an interview with Dr. Fenggang Yang of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. The formation of China’s National Security Commission (NSC) was first announced in November 2013 and the NSC […]
Free Webinar: Where Are the Churches in China? And Why?
In this lecture, Professor Yang will present the geographical distribution of Catholic and Protestant churches in China, discuss several characteristics, and trace some of the historical and social patterns of church development.
Revisiting My Favorite Posts from 2022
A New Twist on the Top 10 List
[…] echoing the question asked by three teen girls, all born in China and adopted as infants by American families. The Changing Religious Landscape in Modernizing China by Yang Fenggang. May 9, 2022. In the context of Communism, how do people come to faith? How do religions survive and even thrive in such a hostile environment? […]
ZGBriefs | June 2, 2022
[…] as a lost future in China. Sponsored Link Free Online Lecture: Where are the Churches in China? And Why? Geographical Patterns of Church Development, by Dr. Fenggang Yang (ChinaSource) Why are there so many Catholic churches in Hebei Province? And why so many Protestant Churches in Anhui? On Thursday, June 16, 2022, Dr. Fenggang Yang […]
ZGBriefs Newsletter for June 7, 2012
[…] Chinese Conversions To Christianity (June 4, 2012, WBUR, byMonday marks the 23rd anniversary of Chinas 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijings Tiananmen Square. And Professor Fenggang Yang of Purdue University has an observation about that day. He says many dissidents who led that movement have become Christians. In fact, he says 1989 was […]
Are Chinese People Religious?
[…] respectively. How can this be? One possible explanation that Johnson highlights comes from Dr. Yang Fengang, Director of the Center on Religion in Chinese Society at Perdue: Yang Fenggang … believes the answers have to do with the question. The word for religion in Chinese, zongjiao, is a 19th-century term borrowed from the Japanese, who in […]