Results for: Yang Fenggang
New but Not Normal
[…] 7, Narci Herr spoke at a women’s event, Tea and Testimony, at The Bridge in Pacific, MO. Joann Pitmann was in central Indiana last week meeting with Professor Yang Fenggang at the Center for Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University and with faculty and staff at Taylor University in Upland. Ways to Pray Pray for […]
How Many Christians in China? Preferred Estimates, Part 2
[…] the 2023 update, “How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated.” In the first post about the number of Christians in China, we heard from Professor Yang Fenggang, of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society. In today’s post we will hear from Dr. Carsten Vala, Professor of Political Science at Loyola University in […]
Resource Corner
Resources for Learning More about Confucianism and Christianity
[…] Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. See a review at http://www.globalchinacenter.org/analysis/christianity-in-china/book-review-christianity-and-chinese-culture-confucianism.php. Wen, Haiming, “Confucius: Cultural Sage, Philosopher and Religious Figure,” China Today, February, 2011, 70-72. See a review at http://www.globalchinacenter.org/analysis/christianity-in-china/confucianism-and-christianity-looming-confrontation.php. Yang, Fenggang, Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation and Adhesive Identities, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Yao, Xinzhong, Confucianism and Christianity: A Comparative Study […]
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, May 1 Issue
[…] biggest Christian congregation, in a sign of Beijing's deep unease at the rapid spread of Christianity within its borders. In a recent interview with the paper, Fenggang Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, said the number of Chinese Protestants could swell to around 160 million by 2025 with the total number of […]
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, July 24 Issue
[…] said by phone. “They beat his head, and I’m worried about his eyesight.” The confrontation Monday morning showed local officials’ determination to remove the cross, said Yang Fenggang, a sociology professor and director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University in Indiana. “This blood, injuries these won’t stop them.” China […]
ZGBriefs | April 4, 2024
[…] Religion Not a Shred of Peace: Testimony of God’s Grace and Call (March 21, 2024, China Partnership Blog) Shortly after Covid-19 began to spread across the world, Wu Jin yang, a Chinese missionary serving in eastern Europe, contracted the virus. He eventually died of the virus, leaving behind his wife and young children. His widow and […]
Continuing a Good Work
[…] their fifth this year on ethics in leadership. Two short essays by ChinaSource readers sharing what they have found most valuable in CSQ. A review of Fenggang Yang’s Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Context. Resource Corner: The new ChinaSource ebook, View from the Wall: Essays on a Changing China by Huo […]
ZGBriefs | February 15, 2024
[…] As Chinese New Year approaches, let’s delve into how we, as Christians as well as Chinese, should perceive the Chinese zodiac (生肖) through a biblical lens. Fenggang Yang: “Xi Jinping is Not Trying to Make Christianity More Chinese” (February 12, 2024, The Pneuma Review) Missionary-scholar Robert Menzies looks at what one China scholar says about recent […]
Supporting Article
Dynamics of Mainland Chinese Ministry in North America
[…] for PRC Ministry,” China Horizon Publications, www.chinahorizon.org/Articles, last modified April 23, 2001. ^ This section has benefited greatly from conversations with and the writings of Dr. Fenggang Yang of Purdue University.” See “Chinese Christian Transnationalism: Diverse Networks of a Houston Church,” in Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz, eds. Religion Across Borders (Walnut […]
Lead Article
When the Pillar Moves: Transition and Providential Grace
[…] has used chaos and order in the great land of China over the last 100 years to bring about perhaps the greatest Christian revival in history. Fenggang Yang, author of Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule, commented that: “By my calculations, China is destined to become the largest Christian country in […]