Center on Religion and the Global East
The Center on Religion and the Global East (CRGE) at Purdue University is dedicated to advancing the social scientific study of religion in East Asian societies, East Asian diasporas, and religions originated in East Asia that are spread around the world. The Center on Religion and Chinese Society (CRCS) was started in 2008 to advance scholarship and dialogue on Chinese religions. In 2020, we expanded our focus to religion in the Global East. CRGE strives to deepen scholarly understanding of religions through research projects and scholarly exchanges, and to building bridges among scholars in the West and East and between scholars and the public through media, symposia, lectures, and publications.
CRGE Publications
Articles
2022
Yang, Fenggang, Joey Marshall and JEE Pettit. 2022. "Churches at the Margin: Mapping the Establishment of Protestant and Catholic Churches in China, ca. 1949–2004" in The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China, edited by Jiang Wu. Routledge.
Yang, Fenggang. 2022. "The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East", Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Books

Религия в Китае. Выживание и возрождение при коммунистическом режиме
Религия в Китае. Выживание и возрождение при коммунистическом режиме, Russian Edition of [Fenggang Yang, Religion in China: Survival & Revival under Communist Rule, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012] 2022.

宗教在當代中國 : 共產黨統治下的存續與復興
宗教在當代中國 : 共產黨統治下的存續與復興 Chinese Edition of [Fenggang Yang, Religion in China: Survival & Revival under Communist Rule, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012] 2021.

Shades of Gray in the Changing Religious Markets of China
Yang, Fenggang, Jonathan Pettit and Chris White. 2021. Shades of Gray in the Changing Religious Markets of China, Brill.

Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies
Yang, Fenggang and Chris White. 2021. Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies, Lehigh University Press.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Volume 9, Issue 1
Jan Vrhovski, Bertrand Russell, Fu Tong, and the Emergence of Scientific Secularism in Early 1920s China
Calida Chu, The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China
Chengpang Lee and Ling Han, Taiwanese Buddhism and Environmentalism
Magdaléna Rychetská, The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and Its Changing Narrative on Human Rights
Kai Shmushko, Religious Commodities or Cultural Elements?
Stay Informed
Sign up for the CRGE newsletter
Stay Connected
