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CRGE E-Newsletter No. (73)
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Articles
The
Religious Market Theory and Religious Change in the United States and China: An Interview with Rodney Stark and Roger Finke
FENGGANG YANG
Porous Religious Economies and the Problem of Regulating Religious Marketplaces
ORLANDO WOODS
The Sarawak Dabogong Festival and Its Social Signi cance in the Chinese Community in Malaysia
HSU YU-TSUEN, CHANG WEI-AN AND CHANG HAN-PI
The Invisible Hand of the Temple (Manager): Gangsters, Political Power, and Transfers of Spiritual
Capital in Taiwan’s Mazu Pilgrimages
JACOB FRIEDEMANN TISCHER
Quantifying the Number of Hidden Han Buddhists in Contemporary China
AMPERE A. TSENG
The Entanglement between Religion and Politics: Hong Kong Christianity in the Anti-Extradition Bill
Movement
FUK-TSANG YING
Book Reviews
Gregory Adam Scott,
Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China
MARCUS BINGENHEIMER
Xiaoxuan Wang,
Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China
MAYFAIR YANG
Daryl Ireland,
John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man
JOSEPH TSE-HEI LEE
Aminta Arrington,
Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwestern China
ANDREW T. KAISER
Fabian Graham,
Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia
DEAN WANG
Joshua Esler,
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary China
LEEI WONG
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Shades of Gray in the Changing Religious Markets of China
Edited by Fenggang Yang, Jonathan Pettit, and Chris White
This
volume
is a collection of studies of various religious groups in the changing religious markets of China: registered Christian congregations, unregistered house churches, Daoist masters, and folk-religious temples. The contributing authors are emerging
Chinese scholars who apply and respond to Fenggang Yang’s tricolor market theory of religion in China: the red, black, and gray markets for legal, illegal, and ambiguous religious groups, respectively. These ethnographic studies demonstrate a great variety
within the gray market, and fluidity across different markets. The volume concludes with Fenggang Yang reviewing the introduction of the religious market theories to China and formally responding to major criticisms of these theories.
For more information, visit the publisher's website.
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Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies
Edited by Fenggang Yang and Chris White
Although
Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diasporic communities.
The chapters gathered in this collection reveal the vital influence of Christian individuals and groups on social, political, and legal activism in Chinese societies. Written from a range of disciplinary and geographical
perspectives, the chapters develop a coherent narrative of Christian activism that illuminates its specific historical, theological, and cultural contexts. Analyzing campaigns for human rights, universal suffrage, and other political reforms, this volume uncovers
the complex dynamics of Christian activism, highlighting its significant contributions to the democratization of Greater China.
For more information, visit the publisher's website.
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21st Century Religion in China: Collaboration, Competition, Confrontation?
Last week, an Interfaith
Lecture Series entitled “21st Century Religion in China: Collaboration, Competition,
Confrontation?” was held at Chautauqua Institution. Lectures were given by Kelly James
Clark,
Fenggang Yang, and
Robin Wang. In addition to the lectures, the week's activities considered China’s role in the world after COVID-19, whether it emerges stronger or weaker politically and economically, and its efforts to overtake the U.S.
as the global leader in technology. Click the links on the lecture titles below to learn more about each.
Kelly James Clark – “A
Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought”
Fenggang Yang – “The Changing Religious Landscape in Modernizing China”
Robin Wang –
“Dao/Tao of Transcending: Yinyang Rhythm, Body Cultivation and A Case of Religious Practice in China Today”
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