Results for: Yang Fenggang
April 10, 2014
[…] believers to decide how they will navigate the ongoing relationship with China's Confucian heritage and its modern day resurgence. A Brief Q & A with Dr. Fenggang Yang at Purdue (April 8, 2014, ChinaSource Blog) The Center on Religion and Chinese Society (CRCS) at Purdue University is launching Leadership Enrichment and Access Program (LEAP) […]
Praying the Ten Commandments for China
[…] witchcraft) continue to boom. The key reason for this is that people's demand for supernatural spirits and mysterious forces has been awakened by process marketization. According to Yang Fenggang, in his book Religious Revivals and Religious Shortage in Contemporary China, “If the institutional religious system cannot meet their needs, people will go to the ‘gray […]
June 6, 2013
Listen: Tiananmen Square, A 'Watershed' For Chinese Conversions To Christianity (June 3, 2013, Here & Now Radio) Monday is the 23rd anniversary of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. And Professor Fenggang Yang of Purdue University says the crackdown set off a trend of conversions to Christianity in China.
Webinar Recording: “Where Are the Churches in China? And Why?”
[…] cases severely restricted, is it possible that there are provinces where Protestant Christianity or Catholic Christianity are the predominant religions? According to research conducted by Professor Fengang Yang, director of The Center for Religion and the Global East, there are ten provinces in China where Protestant Christianity is the predominant religion, and one province […]
3 Questions: Sinicization or Chinafication?
[…] communities. The good folks at China Law Translate have posted a translation of all 41 articles. You can read it here. I recently reached out to Professor Yang Fenggang, who heads the Center for Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University, to ask him for his thoughts and insight on these new regulations. I posed […]
ZGBriefs | August 5, 2021
[…] photos of the medals ceremony for audiences inside China. How female Olympians became the beacon of hope for gold medals in China (August 4, 2021, Dao Insights) Yin sheng yang shuai (阴盛阳衰), or femininity is surging while masculinity is declining, has been a phrase to describe the landscape of sports in China for a long time. Some suggest […]
ZGBriefs | June 4, 2015
Scenes From China's Yangtze River Disaster (June 2, 2015, The Atlantic)
A passenger ship named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star) carrying 458 people, including 406 Chinese passengers, 5 travel agency workers and 47 crew members, sank on Monday night in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in China. According to officials 15 people have […]
Cooperating to Advance God’s Kingdom
[…] months. News and Notes Webinar Recording Where Are the Churches in China? And Why? If you were not able to join the live webinar with Dr. Fenggang Yang on June 16, the webinar was recorded and is now publicly available on our website and YouTube channel. In his webinar, Dr. Yang presented the geographical […]
ZGBriefs | October 22, 2015
[…] its human rights, saying that China is prepared to listen to the UK and other countries on a basis of mutual respect. Religion 3 Questions: Dr. Fenggang Yang (October 19, 2015, From the West Courtyard) Regarding the church, with my limited observation during this short trip, I can only say that I didn’t see […]
How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated
[…] posed these two questions: 1) What is your preferred estimate on the number of Christians in China? 2) How do you arrive at that estimate? Professor Fenggang Yang of Purdue University responded in Part 1. Dr. Carsten Vala of Loyola University responded in Part 2. Part 3 includes shorter responses from ministry practitioners Mike […]