Results for: Yang Fenggang
An Indiana Zuotan (Informal Discussion)
[…] Taylor University, I had the opportunity to visit the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, at Purdue University in Lafayette, IN. Under the direction of Dr. Fenggang Yang, the Center conducts scholarly research on religion in Chinese society (and among the Chinese diaspora) and seeks to be a bridge between Chinese and American scholars […]
Editorials
Perspectives on Confucianism
[…] more conservative stance. Paulos Huang’s masterful comparison of Confucian and Christian doctrines of salvation, while making fundamental differences clear, seems to steer a middle course. Professor Fenggang Yang, interviewed in this issue, believes that “the Chinese Christian church has become an institutional base for passing on transformed Confucian values to younger generations.” Chinese Christians […]
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 […]
Rediscovering the Plot
[…] among the palace guard. The seeds of cultural change that were sown would lead eventually to the Christianization of the empire. Looking back upon this process, sociologist Yang Fenggang and others have asked whether a similar dynamic today could result in a Christian China. The missionary church narrative running throughout Acts paints a compelling picture […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Link Between 1989 and Christianity
The post is an audio interview of Professor Yang Fenggang, of Purdue University, who is head of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. Here's what he says about the link between 1989 and Christianity. People found that in 1989, the Communist belief system could not really provide them the things they […]