Results for: Yang Fenggang
Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
A Book Review
Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, edited by Fenggang Yang, Joy, K.D. Tong, and Allan H. Anderson. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Volume 22in the series, Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, edited by William K. Kay and Mark Cartledge This is a superb book about a very significant topic. The editors have assembled a competent team […]
ZGBriefs | June 7, 2018
Tiananmen Square, A 'Watershed' For Chinese Conversions to Christianity (June 4, 2018, WBUR) 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 a watershed year for conversions, which led to "a quiet spiritual revolution," among […]
Editorials
Looking Back to Move Forward
[…] 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 […]
Scenario #4
[…] ^ Denny, Craig. "Scenarios to Strategy" presentation at the National Bureau of Asian Research conference, "China 2020: Future Scenarios," Arlie Center, Virginia, February 2007. ^ Ibid. ^ 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 […]
ZGBriefs | July 11, 2019
[…] plant (July 5, 2019, South China Morning Post) Protesters carried banners and chanted as they marched against a waste-to-energy plant that could be built next to residential areas in Yangluo, near Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Residents were angered by plans to build the plant on a garbage landfill site that had been expected to […]
Unanswered Questions
[…] asked in a Chinese context. The author believes that because the 2010 report is too official and attempts to use its data as a basis to deny Yang Fenggang’s statement that more than 80% of Chinese people have religious tendencies, the report has little practical significance other than reaffirming that the number of Christians in […]
5 Thoughts on How the Church Grows
[…] people eliminate an existing “inferiority complex,” that is “not feeling good enough,” it is an important and glorious declaration in an atheistic society. I believe that although Yang Fenggang’s research found that more than 80% of people in China have religious feelings or yearnings for religion, the purpose of their yearning for religion is often […]
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 […]