F Yang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5846 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F Yang |
| NOMBRES | F |
| APELLIDO | Yang |
| FIRMA | YANG F |
| AFILIACIONES | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4723-9735 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 670 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans
This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi‐religiosity by accounting for belonging to, belief in, or practice of more than one religion. The findings …
Introduction
The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of multi‐religiosity among Asians, Asian Americans, and non‐Asian Americans
Religious Diversity and Multi‐Religiosity in Singapore
Can government‐mandated exposure to religious diversity both reinforce exclusive identities and cultivate “multi‐religiosity”? This study leverages the 2024 Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality to investigate how Singapore's state‐mandated and managed pluralism impacts the religious lives of its citizens. Challenging Abrahamic‐centric measures that assume exclusivity in belief, belonging, and behavior, we utilize multidimensional measu…
Global, regional, and national burden of spinal cord lesion at neck level a systematic analysis of incidence, prevalence, YLDs with projections to 2046
Background: Spinal cord lesion at neck level imposes significant global morbidity, yet cervical-specific burden analysis remains limited. Methods: Using Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 data (1990-2021), we analyzed incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) across 204 countries/territories, stratified by sex, age, socio-demographic index (SDI) regions, GBD super regions, and countries. Age-period-cohort (APC) model and Baye…
Christian Human Rights Lawyers in Authoritarian China
What motivates and sustains human rights lawyers under an authoritarian government? Previous research has pointed to higher income, prestigious social status, political embeddedness, and liberal values as important sources of motivation and coping strategies for lawyers in China. An intriguing phenomenon is that a very large proportion of China's human rights lawyers are Protestant Christians. This article focuses on Chinese Christian lawyers thr…
A Spatial Analysis of Shamans in South Korea's Religious Market
This study examined the spatial distribution of shamanic practice in contemporary South Korea, focusing on its territorial relationship with institutional religions. Contrary to portrayals of shamanism as a rural remnant or as absorbed by Pentecostal Christianity, population-adjust maps and spatial models reveal substantial concentrations in urban and peri-urban districts. Drawing on a geocoded dataset of 15,639 shamanic sites and 78,323 religiou…
Public Confessions
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians
Social surveys normally assume that respondents adhere to a single religious faith in belonging, believing, and practicing congruently. Some surveys even take religious identity as the singular measure of religiosity and examine its relationship with other variables. This practice, however, fails to capture nonexclusive and hybrid religiosity, which is arguably the traditional and normal pattern in East Asia while becoming increasingly common in …
Mapping Religious Sites in China
Drawing from visual studies scholarship, we highlight current and persistent critiques of sociological visualization, note recent developments in visualization tools for sociologists, and propose how sociologists can be reflective about their visualization choices. As a case study, we outline the visualization development and selection process in our project of mapping Chinese religious venues. We explain the visualization challenges we faced, th…
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East
The Religious Market Theory and Religious Change in the United States and China
In this combined interview, Rodney Stark and Roger Finke share their thoughts on the development of the religious market theory, religious change in the United States, and Christian growth in China. The interview with Rodney Stark was conducted by telephone in late December 2020 and the interview with Roger Finke by email in early January 2021
Religious Geography and County-Level Sex Ratios in China
The sex ratio at birth in China is highly imbalanced in favor of boys. Past research on sex ratios in China emphasizes economic factors for their weakening effect on the Confucian tradition of son preference. Research in the sociology of religion suggests that religious geography may affect sex ratios through the spill-over of religious teachings to those living in areas dominated by a religious tradition. To assess this linkage, we investigate t…
Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion in China
In Western societies, religious heterogamy and its effects on religious socialization outcomes have been interpreted through the lens of secularization. How about China, where religion has been resurging in recent decades? Using data from the 2007 Spiritual Life Survey of Chinese Residents, this study shows that despite China's atheist education system and strict religion policies, having at least one religiously affiliated parent is associated w…
The Law and Religious Market Theory
In the social scientific study of religion, the economic approach rose up in the 1980s, stirred up exciting debates in the 1990s, and championed a paradigm shift, which was spectacularly accomplished around the turn of the century. The old paradigm of secularization waned and the new paradigm of vitality and diversity waxed. In recent years, however, the social scientific study of religion in the West seems to have lost steam, as there is no long…
Does State Repression Suppress the Protest Participation of Religious People
The relationship between religion and protest participation has long been of interest to sociologists, however few cross-national, quantitative studies have examined this relationship in a robust methodological way. In addition, how state repression influences the protest participation of religious people is still not clear. Using a dataset integrating the sixth wave of the World Values Surveys, the freedom index created by the Freedom House, and…
Religions and Social Progress
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The Failure of the Campaign to Demolish Church Crosses in Zhejiang Province, 2013–2016
In 2013, the Zhejiang government initiated a campaign to demolish church crosses ( DCC ) throughout the province in the name of landscape improvement. In April 2016, the campaign was abruptly and quietly halted. The termination of the campaign was primarily due to unremitting resistance by Christians in Zhejiang. This article provides a temporal and spatial analysis of the DCC campaign that reveals multiple failures on the part of the Zhejiang au…
The Cross of Chinese Christians and Their Resistance to Suppression
Decomposing Immigrants' Religious Mobility
The religious mobility of immigrants has rarely received a systematic investigation that separates the two mutually exclusive mechanisms: the structural shift that occurs due to an overall environment favorable to certain religions, and the exchange effect that occurs when people voluntarily flow between any pair of two religions. Chinese overseas students constitute the largest foreign student body in the US whose religious mobility pattern rema…
Internal Diversity among "Spiritual but Not Religious" Adolescents in the United States
Americans who self-identify as spiritual but not religious (SBNR) have increased in recent years. Existing studies of American religion often assume the SBNR as a homogeneous group. Recently some scholars suggest they are not all the same. Instead, SBNR people may differ in the pattern of religious practice, attitude, and affection. This study examines the heterogeneity of the SBNR using a person-centered approach of latent class analysis. We fir…
Religion in the Global East
This essay is based on the Presidential Address at the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Inaugural Conference on 3-5 July 2018 in Singapore. It discusses some aspects of the key concepts, some of the distinct characteristics of religion in East Asia, and some implications for the social scientific study of religion in general
Shaping the Religiosity of Chinese University Students
Our study examined the respective relationships between two components of higher education in mainland China-science education and political indoctrination-and the religiosity of university students. Using a cross-sectional, representative sample of about 1700 college students in Beijing, we found first that students studying natural/applied sciences were less likely to perceive Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam as plausible and less likely t…
Measuring religiosity in a religiously diverse society
How Chinese are Chinese Christians Today
From Cooperation to Resistance
On September 7, 2016, the Chinese government released a “Draft of Revised Regulations of Religious Affairs” on the website of “Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council,” allowing citizens to
Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications
Immigrant religious communities in the United States are undergoing profound transformations. Three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: (I) adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, (2) returning to theological foundations, and (3) reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples. These changes support the " new paradigm" in the soc…
The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China
The economic approach to religion has confined its application to Christendom in spite of the ambition of the core theorists for its universal applicability. Moreover, the supply-side market theory focuses on one type of religiosity-religious participation (membership and attendance) in formal religious organizations. In an attempt to analyze the religious situation in contemporary China, a country with religious traditions and regulations drasti…
Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald's
Protestant Christianity has been growing very fast in China under communist rule. This article shows that the converts are not all marginalized individuals deprived of material and social resources. An increasing proportion of the converts are well-educated young people in urban China. To explain this conversion to a nontraditional religion, the micro-level factors of individual crisis, individual choices, and personal bonds are inadequate. The m…
Religion and Ethnicity Among New Immigrants
Research shows that religion continues to be an important identity marker for new immigrants in the United States. However, immigrant groups differ in the ways they integrate religious and ethnic identities and the emphasis they place on each. In this paper, we argue that majority or minority status of their religious affiliation in the home and host countries is an important, but overlooked, factor in understanding strategies concerning religiou…
Mapping Chinese Folk Religion in Mainland China and Taiwan
The revival of folk (popular) religion in China in the last three decades has been noted in many publications and documented in ethnographic studies. However, until now there has been no quantitative study that provides an overall picture of Chinese folk-religion practices. This article is a first attempt to draw the contours of Chinese folk religion based on three recent surveys conducted in mainland China and Taiwan. Three types of folk religio…
Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Christianity
Why do immigrants abandon their traditional religion and convert to Protestant Christianity? Existing sociological theories of conversion are mostly based on studies of individuals who convert into cults. Factors of individual personality and interpersonal bonds in small networks, or assimilation motives, cannot adequately explain the growing phenomenon of conversion to evangelical Protestantism among new immigrant groups from Asia and Latin Amer…
Miraculous Response
More than Evangelical and Ethnic
This paper focuses on the conversion patterns of students and scholars from the People's Republic of China studying at United States universities. Based on in-depth interviews and observations conducted on university campuses in two midwestern cities, we examine the similarities and differences of conversion between the two Chinese student communities. While the social and cultural contexts in China are prevalent in their conversion narratives, t…
Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing Reality
Under the ride of the Chinese Communist Party, the scholarship of religious research in China has changed from virtual nonexistence in the first thirty years (1949–1979) to flourishing in the reform era (1979-present). Moreover, the predominant view on religion has moved away from militant atheism to a more scientific, objective and consequently more balanced approach to religion. This paper attempts to trace this intellectual history in China an…
Religion in China under Communism
Journal Article Religion in China under Communism: A Shortage Economy Explanation Get access Fenggang Yang Fenggang Yang [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 52, Issue 1, Winter 2010, Pages 3–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csp042 Published: 19 November 2009
Exploring Mass Conversion to Christianity Among the Chinese
Fenggang Yang, Joseph B. Tamney; Exploring Mass Conversion to Christianity Among the Chinese: An Introduction, Sociology of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 2, 1
ABC and XYZ
(1999). ABC and XYZ: Religious, Ethnic and Racial Identities of the New Second Generation Chinese in Christian Churches. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 89-115
Determinants of Religious Giving in American Denominations
R. Hoge, Fenggang Yang, Determinants of Religious Giving in American Denominations: Data from Two Nationwide Surveys, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 36, No. 2, Special Issue: Patterns of Financial Contributions to Churches (Dec., 1994), pp. 123-148
Exceptionalism or Chinamerica
Religion is changing fast in this era of globalization. Major global trends include the growth of Muslims, the shrinking percentage of unaffiliated, and the rapid rise of Christianity in global China. By 2030, China is likely to become the largest Christian country in the world while retaining large numbers of Buddhists, Muslims, and folk religious believers. To capture religious changes more accurately, social scientists of religion must sharpen…
Trajectories of Folk Religion in Deregulated Taiwan
Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data collected in Taiwan, this research examines the age, period, and cohort effects on the trajectories of folk religions. We detect a temporal growth in Taiwanese folk religion from the early 1990s to the mid-1990s, followed by a downward trend in the 2000s. A slight decline of individual folk religion is confirmed across the life course among Taiwanese residents. The cohorts that experienced the martial law er…
Measuring religiosity in a religiously diverse society
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians
Social surveys normally assume that respondents adhere to a single religious faith in belonging, believing, and practicing congruently. Some surveys even take religious identity as the singular measure of religiosity and examine its relationship with other variables. This practice, however, fails to capture nonexclusive and hybrid religiosity, which is arguably the traditional and normal pattern in East Asia while becoming increasingly common in …
Does Ideological Education in China Suppress Trust in Religion and Foster Trust in Government
A major goal of ideological education in China is to promote loyalty to the party-state and to instill atheism among the people. How effective is this ideological education? This article examines the relationship between education and trust in government and trust in religion using data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey. We find that education is negatively associated with trust in government, while positively related to trust in religi…
From Cooperation to Resistance
On September 7, 2016, the Chinese government released a “Draft of Revised Regulations of Religious Affairs” on the website of “Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council,” allowing citizens to
Internal Diversity among "Spiritual but Not Religious" Adolescents in the United States
Americans who self-identify as spiritual but not religious (SBNR) have increased in recent years. Existing studies of American religion often assume the SBNR as a homogeneous group. Recently some scholars suggest they are not all the same. Instead, SBNR people may differ in the pattern of religious practice, attitude, and affection. This study examines the heterogeneity of the SBNR using a person-centered approach of latent class analysis. We fir…
What about China? Religious Vitality in the Most Secular and Rapidly Modernizing Society
Journal Article What about China? Religious Vitality in the Most Secular and Rapidly Modernizing Society Get access Fenggang Yang Fenggang Yang * Purdue University *Direct correspondence to Fenggang Yang, Department of Sociology and Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volum…
Shaping the Religiosity of Chinese University Students
Our study examined the respective relationships between two components of higher education in mainland China-science education and political indoctrination-and the religiosity of university students. Using a cross-sectional, representative sample of about 1700 college students in Beijing, we found first that students studying natural/applied sciences were less likely to perceive Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam as plausible and less likely t…
Religion in the Global East
This essay is based on the Presidential Address at the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Inaugural Conference on 3-5 July 2018 in Singapore. It discusses some aspects of the key concepts, some of the distinct characteristics of religion in East Asia, and some implications for the social scientific study of religion in general
Estimating Religious Populations with the Network Scale-Up Method
Getting accurate information on religious demographics from survey-based self-reports presents a difficult task, suffering from the biases of social desirability, personal safety concerns, and the ambiguous definitions of religious identity. The network scale-up method (NSUM) is an estimation strategy based on the enumeration of social network ties. NSUM has recently been employed to estimate the sizes of hidden populations in criminology and pub…
A Research Agenda on Religious Freedom in China
Although the subject of religious freedom in China has appeared frequently in international news and human rights reports, it has been understudied by academic scholars. To follow the principle of shi shi qiu shi (to seek truth in facts, as promoted by Deng Xiaoping since the late 1970s as a new Chinese Communist policy principle), scholarly research ought to find facts and to develop theoretical explanations of the facts. Research does not have …
Determinants of Religious Giving in American Denominations
R. Hoge, Fenggang Yang, Determinants of Religious Giving in American Denominations: Data from Two Nationwide Surveys, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 36, No. 2, Special Issue: Patterns of Financial Contributions to Churches (Dec., 1994), pp. 123-148
Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Christianity
Why do immigrants abandon their traditional religion and convert to Protestant Christianity? Existing sociological theories of conversion are mostly based on studies of individuals who convert into cults. Factors of individual personality and interpersonal bonds in small networks, or assimilation motives, cannot adequately explain the growing phenomenon of conversion to evangelical Protestantism among new immigrant groups from Asia and Latin Amer…
Congregation and Community
Chinese Christians in America
ABC and XYZ
(1999). ABC and XYZ: Religious, Ethnic and Racial Identities of the New Second Generation Chinese in Christian Churches. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 89-115
China's Catholics
Journal Article China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society, by Richard Madsen. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998, xii + 183 pp. $27.50 Get access Fenggang Yang Fenggang Yang University of Southern Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 4, Winter 1999, Pages 462–463, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712030 Published: 01 Decemb…
Old Wisdom in the New World
Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications
Immigrant religious communities in the United States are undergoing profound transformations. Three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: (I) adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, (2) returning to theological foundations, and (3) reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples. These changes support the " new paradigm" in the soc…
Chinese Christians in America
Journal Article Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities, by Fenggang Yang. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, x + 238pp. $50.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) Get access Paul D. Numrich Paul D. Numrich Religion, Immigration, and Civil Society in Chicago Project Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion,…
Religion and Ethnicity Among New Immigrants
Research shows that religion continues to be an important identity marker for new immigrants in the United States. However, immigrant groups differ in the ways they integrate religious and ethnic identities and the emphasis they place on each. In this paper, we argue that majority or minority status of their religious affiliation in the home and host countries is an important, but overlooked, factor in understanding strategies concerning religiou…
Chinese Christians in America
Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity
Book Review| April 01 2004 Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction, Craig R. Prentiss. Fenggang Yang Fenggang Yang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (3): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501463 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citat…
Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing Reality
Under the ride of the Chinese Communist Party, the scholarship of religious research in China has changed from virtual nonexistence in the first thirty years (1949–1979) to flourishing in the reform era (1979-present). Moreover, the predominant view on religion has moved away from militant atheism to a more scientific, objective and consequently more balanced approach to religion. This paper attempts to trace this intellectual history in China an…
Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing Reality
The Cross Faces the Loudspeakers
State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies
This collection of original, new studies about Mainland China and Taiwan focuses on religious changes, and especially the role of the state and market in affecting religious developments in these societies. Information was gathered by participant observation and interviews primarily, and the analysis of documents secondarily. The topics covered are: the growing interest in the study of religion, the methods used by Christians to be able to coexis…
Asian American Religions
Journal Article Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, by Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang (Eds.). New York: New York University Press, 2004, 432 pp.; $70.00 USD (cloth), $22.00 USD (paper) Get access Kathleen Garces-Foley Kathleen Garces-Foley California State University, Northridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pag…
Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald's
Protestant Christianity has been growing very fast in China under communist rule. This article shows that the converts are not all marginalized individuals deprived of material and social resources. An increasing proportion of the converts are well-educated young people in urban China. To explain this conversion to a nontraditional religion, the micro-level factors of individual crisis, individual choices, and personal bonds are inadequate. The m…
Miraculous Response
The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China
The economic approach to religion has confined its application to Christendom in spite of the ambition of the core theorists for its universal applicability. Moreover, the supply-side market theory focuses on one type of religiosity-religious participation (membership and attendance) in formal religious organizations. In an attempt to analyze the religious situation in contemporary China, a country with religious traditions and regulations drasti…
More than Evangelical and Ethnic
This paper focuses on the conversion patterns of students and scholars from the People's Republic of China studying at United States universities. Based on in-depth interviews and observations conducted on university campuses in two midwestern cities, we examine the similarities and differences of conversion between the two Chinese student communities. While the social and cultural contexts in China are prevalent in their conversion narratives, t…
Exploring Mass Conversion to Christianity Among the Chinese
Fenggang Yang, Joseph B. Tamney; Exploring Mass Conversion to Christianity Among the Chinese: An Introduction, Sociology of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 2, 1
Democracy's Dharma
Religious Awakening in China under Communist Rule
Oligopoly Dynamics
In the first part of this article, the author tries to clarify a set of interconnected concepts—religious plurality (diversity), pluralization, and pluralism. As a descriptive concept for sociological theorizing, social pluralism is further differentiated into legal, civic and cultural arrangements. Modern pluralization may have started accidentally in the United States of America, but it has become a general trend in the world. In the second par…
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