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Dr. Fenggang
Yang is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue
University, specializing in the sociology of religion.
He received his BA from Hebei Normal University
(Shijiazhuang, China) in 1982, MA from Nankai University
(Tianjin, China) in 1987, and Ph.D. from The Catholic
University of America (Washington, DC) in 1997. His
sociological 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 the Smithsonian
Institution, and has been interviewed by the
Washington Post, Seattle Times, Los
Angeles Times, etc. and some newspapers in Asia.
杨凤岗，河北沧州人。1982年获河北师范大学法学学士，1987年获南开大学哲学硕士，1997年获美国天主教大学社会学博士。
曾任沧州教育学院教师、中国人民大学哲学宗教学讲师、美国休斯敦大学社会学博士后、美国南缅因州大学社会学助教授。
现任美国普度大学社会学副教授，中国人民大学讲座教授。
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