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.

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CRGE Projects

CRGE Publications

Articles

2022

Yang, Fenggang and Brian L. McPhail. 2023. "Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Henke, Jackie and Fenggang Yang. 2022. "Mapping Religious Sites in China: A Research Note", Review of Religion and Chinese Society.

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

中國宗教的特殊性和普世性 : 理論和方法新探

楊鳳崗： 2022， 中國宗教的特殊性和普世性 : 理論和方法新探，政大出版社。

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.