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Fenggang Yang
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on Religion and Chinese Society
Personal Homepage: http://www.purdue.edu/crcs/
Office Phone: (765) 494-2641
Email: fyang@purdue.edu
Specialization: Sociology of Religion; Asian-American Religion; China
Courses: Taught (Last two years)
SOC 307 - Religion in America
SOC 667 - Seminar on the Sociology of Religion
SOC 609 - Seminar on Contemporary China
Dr. Yang's research has focused on immigrant religions in the United States and religious change in China. He is the author of Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities (Penn State University Press 1999), the co-editor (with Tony Carnes) of Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries (New York University Press 2004), and the co-editor (with Joseph B. Tamney) of State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies (Brill Academic Publishers 2005) and Conversion to Christianity among the Chinese (a special issue of the Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 2006). His articles have been published in books and in the American Sociological Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Amerasia Journal, and Journal of Asian American Studies, the Sociological Quarterly, including one that won the “2002 Distinguished Article Award” of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and one that won “2006 Distinguished Article Award” of the American Sociological Association’s Section of the Sociology of Religion. His current research focuses on the political economy of religion in China, Christian ethics and market transition in China, and Chinese Christian churches in the United States. He has given many invited lectures at universities and has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, etc. and some newspapers in Asia.
Positions at Purdue University
2006 - present Associate Professor of Sociology
2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Sociology
Service to the Profession
Program Chair, Association for the Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2004
Director, Summer Institute for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Beijing. 2004 – present
Council Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2004-2007.
Council Member, Section of Asia & Asian America, ASA, 2001-04.
Council Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2000-2003
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Article Award, American Sociological Association Section of Sociology of Religion, 2006
Program Chair, Association for the Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2004
Director, Summer Institute for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Beijing. 2004 – present
Council Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2004-2007.
Council Member, Section of Asia & Asian America, ASA, 2001-04.
Council Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2000-2003
Distinguished Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2002
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