绘制中国灵性资本
本研究计划将通过对中国宗教的社会科学研究，以达至以下三个目的：绘制中国宗教图景及宗教市场变化、考察灵性资本在新兴公民社会中的作用、发表学术论文以促进宗教社会学科发展。 (1) 描绘宗教图景及宗教市场变化：当今中国各个宗教的现状如何？我們将制作一本地图集，运用地图、表格、图片对中国不同地区宗教生活进行描述。本研究运用地理信息系统（GIS）的空间数据来呈现宗教场所的地理分布。宗教场所的数据主要来源于中国2004年的经济普查，7万2千8百77个官方认可的宗教场所，还将包括从“热点”和“冷点”区域（宗教场所集中和稀少的地区）采集的宗教场所相关数据。采集的地理数据。地图集还将呈现对信徒以及当地社会环境的分析一组宗教信仰者和实践者社会环境的问卷调查分析。目前，这些数据已经逐渐向公众开放，数据分析还在进行中。第二，我们将出版一本关于中国宗教市场的手册，包括对不同地区宗教群体和社区的田野报告，分析宗教组织是如何在红、黑、灰宗教市场之间游走与转变。这本手册将进一步强化宗教市场的理论建构。再者，我们将开发在线地理数据、声像材料以及交互地图。这些地图集、手册以及在线交互信息平台将成为研究中国宗教/灵性传统之动态的基准。 (2) 考察灵性资本在新兴公民社会中的作用：我们将“灵性资本”定义为宗教和灵性社会网络所创造的价值，使得个人和群体能够紧密联系并服务彼此。这部分研究将回答两个问题：宗教如何在共产党治理下生存与复兴？基督教和佛教在市场和政治转型期的新兴公民社会中起到何种作用？鉴于基督教和佛教是当今中国两大宗教，我们将分别选取100位基督教和佛教领袖进行口述史研究。这些访谈将有助于厘清宗教如何在文化大革命下生存及在管制政策下复兴的原因和机制。限制性的规范中复兴的因素和机制。我们也将深入访谈100位基督徒和100位佛教徒专业人士，包括律师、记者、大学教授、作家和艺术家等，了解他们对公民价值和公民参与的看法。 (3) 培养新学术共同体：中国宗教与社会研究中心主办的学术期刊，《华人宗教与社会评论》，将为一流的、独立的研究成果提供发表平台，以促进、鼓励和发展有关中国宗教的学术研究。中心将每年为青年学者组织为期两周的英文写作工作坊。工作坊都对选出12位致力于研究中国宗教且希望在国际期刊中发表英文著作的学者进行培训。上述两部分的研究成果将以专刊形式发表，主题分别为，宗教市场变化和宗教与公民社会。
Outcomes
- Case Studies of Religious Groups in a Rapidly Changing Society (Seoul, Korea 2016)
- Changing Religious Landscape in Contemporary East Asia (Hong Kong 2017)
- Religiosity, Secularity, and Pluralism in the Global East (Singapore 2018)
- Conference on East-West Encounters and Religious Change in Modernizing East Asia (Hokkaido, Japan 2019)
- Islam in China and Chinese Muslims (Dubai, UAE 2018)
- Christianity in China: the State of the Field and the Next Ten Years (Hawaii, USA 2018)
- Confucianism and Daoism: From Max Weber to the Present (Hawaii, USA 2018)
- Chinese Buddhism: From Holmes Welch to the Present (Indiana, USA 2018)
- The Study of Chinese Minjian Religion: Reviewing the Field and Future Directions (Hong Kong 2018)
- Writing Workshop for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China (Seattle, USA 2016)
- Writing Workshop for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China (Montreal, Canada 2017)
- Writing Workshop for the Social Scientific Study of Religion among the Chinese (Singapore 2018)
Books:
- Yang, Fenggang. 2018 Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, Brill Publishers.
- Yang, Fenggang, Francis Jae-ryong Song and SAKURAI Yoshihide. 2019 Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East, MDPI Books.
- Yang, Fenggang, Joy K.C.Tong and Allan H. Anderson, eds. 2017, Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. Brill Publishers.
Articles:
- Tong, Yunping and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Internal Diversity Among “Spiritual But Not Religious” Adolescents in the United States: A Person-Centered Examination Using Latent Class Analysis”, Review of Religious Research 60 (4): 435-452.
- Li, Miao, Yun Lu and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Shaping the Religiosity of Chinese University Students: Science Education and Political Indoctrination,” Religions 2018, 9 (10): 309.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2018. “Religion in the Global East: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Scientific Study of Religion,” Religions 2018, 9 (10): 305.
- Lu, Yun and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Does State Repression Suppress the Protest Participation of Religious People?” Sociology of Religion 80 (2): 194–221.
- Yang, Fenggang and Anning Hu. 2018. “Folk Religion in Contemporary China” in Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Edited by Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2018. “Evangelization amid Cooperation, Accommodation, and Resistance” in D. Philpott & T. Shah (Eds.), Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution (Law and Christianity, pp. 334-357). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Yang, Xiaozhao Yousef and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Estimating Religious Populations with the Network Scale‐Up Method: A Practical Alternative to Self‐Report,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56 (4): 703-719.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2018. “The Failure of the Campaign to Demolish Church Crosses in Zhejiang Province, 2013–2016: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis,” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 5 (1): 5-25.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2018. “The Cross of Chinese Christians and Their Resistance to Suppression,” Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 5 (1): 1-4.
- L. Luke Chao and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Measuring religiosity in a religiously diverse society: The China case,” Social Science Research 74 (August 2018): 187-195
- Yang, Xiaozhao Yousef and Fenggang Yang. 2017. “Acculturation Versus Cultural Retention: The Interactive Impact of Acculturation and Co-ethnic Ties on Substance Use Among Chinese Students in the United States,” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 20 (3): 546–560.
- Yang, X. Yousef, Anning Hu, Fenggang Yang. 2017. “Decomposing Immigrants’ Religious Mobility: Structural Shifts and Inter-religion Exchanges Among Chinese Overseas Students,” Review of Religious Research 60 (2): 183–198.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2017. “Chinese Christianity at the Crossroads: A Sociohistorical Perspective” in Between Continuity and Changes: Studies on the History of Chinese Christianity since 1949, edited by Wong Man-kong, Paul W. Cheung, Chan Chi-hang, Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong.
- Xie, Ying, Yunping Tong and Fenggang Yang. 2017. “Does Ideological Education in China Suppress Trust in Religion and Foster Trust in Government?” Religions 2017, 8 (5), 94.
- Yang, Fenggang. 2017. “From Cooperation to Resistance: Christian Responses to Intensified Suppression in China Today.” The Review of Faith & International Affairs 15 (1): 79-90.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society Special Issues
- Volume 5 Issue 2 – Islam in China
- Volume 6 Issue 1 – Christianity in China
- Volume 6 Issue 2 – Minjian Religion in China
- Volume 7 Issue 1 – Buddhism in China