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A Family Tour
A Film Review
[…] which gives me the chance to catch up on recent Chinese movies. One of the movies on the schedule this year was A Family Tour, directed by Yang Liang. The movie tells the story of a dissident filmmaker named Yang Shu who, after producing a film that angered Chinese authorities, is now living 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 […]
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 […]
Sharing the Good News with Hui
Know Thy Hui Neighbor (9)
[…] prominent mosque and introduced himself as a student of Islam. The ahong (imam, Muslim cleric) fed him, discipled him, and took him to Islamic conferences and events. Yang’s understanding of Islam and Hui community skyrocketed. But how could he share his faith in Jesus? Soon Yang’s wife started having nightmares. Then one day, another […]
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 […]
A Church in Nanyang
[…] be the source of a unique experience for him. After about a half hour, he suddenly proclaimed that he would take me to see the pastor. Pastor Yang was a sixty-ish gentleman with rather long (for a Chinese male) graying hair that kept falling over his forehead, and a sort of self-satisfied smirk constantly […]
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 […]
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 | December 9, 2021
[…] to God in the article below. Society / Life China’s Elderly Have a New Obsession: Video Games (December 3, 2021, Sixth Tone) The former engineer, whose full name is Yang Binglin, spent his career working on hydrocarbon exploration for Chinese oil companies. But since retiring, he has found an unexpected second vocation as a gaming influencer. […]
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 […]