Results for: Yang Fenggang
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The Coming Third Anti-Christian Movement?
Learning from Modern Chinese Intellectuals
[…] is growing in China (what is a more accurate statement might be: the church has begun to plateau, and in certain sectors may be declining), Dr. Fenggang Yang of Purdue University has noted a strong rise in the worship of Confucius and the emergence of Confucianism as a religion: A strong social movement has […]
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China in Transition
Transition to What?
[…] 2020: The Challenge of a Second Transition.” Paper presented for the National Bureau of Asian Research conference, “China 2020: Future Scenarios,” Arlie Center, Virginia, February 2007. ^ Yang, Fenggang. “Cultural Dynamics in China Today and Possible Scenarios Around 2020.” Paper presented for the National Bureau of Asian Research conference, “China 2020: Future Scenarios,” Arlie […]
Is Christianity a “Chinese” Religion?
[…] and Stacey Bieler, Editors, Chinese Intellectuals and the Gospel (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 1999). 7For conversions to Christianity by Chinese living in North America, see Fenggang Yang, Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 1999). 8Jonathan Fenby, Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He […]
October 24, 2013
[…] to relent when it comes to calling for the rule of law, adherence to the constitution, or an end to abuses of power. RELIGION Q. and A.: Yang Fenggang on the Oxford Consensus and Public Trust in China (October 18, 2013, Sinosphere) In late August, two dozen Chinese public intellectuals from four of the countrys […]
April 24, 2014
[…] economy but also its most numerous Christian nation. "By my calculations China is destined to become the largest Christian country in the world very soon," said Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and author of Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. "It is going to be less than […]
ZGBriefs | April 16, 2015
[…] Weekly Number) Today, the world's seventh largest Christian population lives in China. By 2050 it could become the world's largest. This has been argued by sociologist Fenggang Yang of Purdue University. Beijing Christians Celebrate Qingming Festival (April 14, 2015, ChinaSource Blog) This year April 5 was an interesting day for Christians in China as […]
ZGBriefs | December 17, 2015
[…] Chinese in a better way. Articles for Researchers Presentation: The Definition of Religion for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond, by Dr. Fenggang Yang. (Perdue University) China, Egypt imprison record numbers of journalists (December 15, 2015, Committee to Protect Journalists) A quarter of those jailed globally are in China, the […]
ZGBriefs | May 4, 2017
[…] authors include the most active and renowned scholars of global Pentecostalism and Chinese Christianity, including Allan Anderson, Daniel Bays, Kim-twang Chan, Gordon Melton, Donald Miller, and Fenggang Yang. It covers historical linkages between Pentecostal missions and indigenous movements in greater China, contemporary charismatic congregations in China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, and the […]
ZGBriefs | November 3, 2022
[…] period. Foxconn’s plant in Zhengzhou, which employs about 200,000 people, produces the majority of Apple’s new phones, including the new iPhone 14. Health / Environment After the Yangtze, China Passes Law to Protect Yellow River (November 1, 2022, Sixth Tone) The law attaches particular importance to capping the amount of groundwater that can be withdrawn from […]
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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 […]