Results for: Yang Fenggang
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 […]
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 […]
Pentecostal Theology and the Chinese Church
[…] example, Hunter and Chan point out that Pentecostal values resonate with important features of Chinese folk religion and thus meet the felt-needs of many Chinese believers. Fenggang Yang argues that the vicissitudes in China created by the transition to a market economy have created a new kind of angst and the need for a […]
Revisiting My Favorite Posts from 2022
A New Twist on the Top 10 List
[…] echoing the question asked by three teen girls, all born in China and adopted as infants by American families. The Changing Religious Landscape in Modernizing China by Yang Fenggang. May 9, 2022. In the context of Communism, how do people come to faith? How do religions survive and even thrive in such a hostile environment? […]
ZGBriefs | June 2, 2022
[…] as a lost future in China. Sponsored Link Free Online Lecture: Where are the Churches in China? And Why? Geographical Patterns of Church Development, by Dr. Fenggang Yang (ChinaSource) Why are there so many Catholic churches in Hebei Province? And why so many Protestant Churches in Anhui? On Thursday, June 16, 2022, Dr. Fenggang Yang […]
Are Chinese People Religious?
[…] respectively. How can this be? One possible explanation that Johnson highlights comes from Dr. Yang Fengang, Director of the Center on Religion in Chinese Society at Perdue: Yang Fenggang … believes the answers have to do with the question. The word for religion in Chinese, zongjiao, is a 19th-century term borrowed from the Japanese, who in […]
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 […]
Ten Books on Christianity in China
[…] discontent of the masses and will play an important role in shaping the country's future. 8. Religion in China, Survival and Revival under Communist Rule, by Fenggang Yang (2011) Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human historya total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1979). All churches, […]
Supporting Article
Transpacific Transposition: 1965 to Present
History of Chinese Christianity in North America (3)
[…] The existing congregation, the Chinese Community Church, had been organized in 1935 in Washington’s Chinatown with a Cantonese base and as an interdenominational effort.19 According to Fenggang Yang, this church “has continuously provided social services to the Chinatown community, frequently expressed concerns about the welfare of the whole ethnic Chinese community, and sometimes participated […]