State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies

Joseph B. Tamney is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology Department, Ball State University (USA). He received his B.S. and M.A. from Fordham University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was a member of the editorial Board for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, editor of Sociology of Religion (1994-2000), and president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (2003-4). His published works include: The Resilience of Christianity in the Modern World (State University of New York Press, 1992), American Society in the Buddhist Mirror (Garland 1992), The Struggle Over Singapore’s Soul: Western Modernization and Asian Culture (Walter de Gruyter 1996), The Resilience of Conservative Religion (Cambridge University Press 2002), and, with Linda Hsueh-Ling Chiang, Modernization, Globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese Societies (Praeger 2002).
Fenggang Yang received his BA from the Hebei Normal University (Shijiazhuang, China), MA from Nankai University (Tianjin, China), and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC). He is an Assistant Pprofessor of Sociology at Purdue University. He is the author of Chinese Christians in America (Penn State University Press 1999) and the co-editor, along with Tony Carnes, of Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries (New York University Press 2004). His articles have been published in various books and in the American Sociological Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, and Journal of Asian American Studies. 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.

All those social scientists, religious specialists, journalists, and others who want to understand the changing nature of Chinese societies, and those interested in religious change in modernizing societies