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
2020
- Tong, Yunping, Christie Sennott and Fenggang Yang. 2020. "Religious Geography and County‐Level Sex Ratios in China." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2020. Secularization Regimes and Religious Toleration: China’s Multiple Experiments. In: Karpov V., Svensson M. (eds) Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- McPhail, Brian L. and Fenggang Yang. 2020. "Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion in China." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Books

La religione nella Cina comunista Dalla sopravvivenza al risveglio
La religione nella Cina comunista Dalla sopravvivenza al risveglio. Italian Edition of [Fenggang Yang, Religion in China: Survival & Revival under Communist Rule, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012] 2020.

Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East
Yang, Fenggang, Francis Jae-ryong Song and SAKURAI Yoshihide. 2019. Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East, MDPI Books.

Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts
Yang, Fenggang. 2018. Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, Brill Publishers.

Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Yang, Fenggang, Joy K.C.Tong and Allan H. Anderson, eds. 2017, Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. Brill Publishers.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Volume 7, Issue 2
Anna Sun, Confucianism and Daoism: From Max Weber to the Present
Yong Chen, “The Last Confucian” in the Rice Paddy of Java
Robin R. Wang, From Female Daoist Rationality to Kundao Practice
Jonathan Pettit, From Alchemy to Science
Kenneth Dean, Religion and the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia
Anna Sun, Thinking with Weber’s Religion of China in the Twenty-First Century
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