Description: In Religion in China, Fenggang Yang provides a comprehensive overview of the religious change in China under Communism, drawing on his ''political economy'' approach to the sociology of religion.
Review Quotes: "Yang's book Religion in China has brilliant chapters, some controversial but all provacative and worth considering." --The New York Review of Books
"This book, or at least the key parts of it, should be required reading in graduate seminars that cover the new paradigm. Yang's argument cuts to the heart of contemporary discourses, and does so in a manner that is both nuanced and thought-provoking. Despite the complexity of the theoretical issues at hand, this is also a very accessible work, with
enough detail to interest sinologists, yet not enough to burden nonspecialists--no
easy task! Brilliant work; very highly recommended."--Sociology of Religion
"Fenggang Yang, a sociologist at Purdue University, takes readers of his new book Religion in China on an overview tour of this dramatic historical peregrination... readers interested mainly in seeing this market framework applied to the dramatic changes in Chinese religion since 1949 will find much in Yang's book that is valuable and insightful." --American Journal of Sociology
"Yang's arguments about the factors driving religious change in China demand our attention." --The Christian Century