Seminar on Religion, Politics, and Society in the United States

The Berkley Center hosted a three day seminar with leading young Chinese scholars of religious studies. The seminar was part of the third summer workshop of the Chinese Spirituality and Society Program organized by Professor Yang Fenggang of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University and supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Speakers at the Berkley Center seminar included Thomas Banchoff (American Civil Religion in a Multipolar World), José Casanova (Religion, Politics, and Society in the United States and China), Clyde Wilcox (Religion and the US Presidential Election), Galen Carey (Evangelicals in US Politics and Society), and Thomas Farr (Religious Freedom in American Politics and Foreign Policy).

Projects and affiliations of the seminar participants

Center Project
>>Guan-xi Between Spirituality and Society in China------An Empirical Study on the Beliefs of Citizens in Yangtze River Delta
Center for Religion and Society at East China Normal University (Director: LI Xiangping)

Individual Projects
>>Folk Religion and Local Community: Field Researches on Three Villages in Hunan Province
CHEN Bin (Hunan Normal University)

>>Operation and Impact of Grey Religion Market in Rural Heilongjiang Province: an Empirical Study Based on Social Capital
FAN Zhihui (Heilongjiang University)

>>Chinese Religions as a Resource in Construction of Civic Identity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Believer Groups
FANG Wen (Peking University)

>>Traditional Religions and Christianity and Chinese Entrepreneurship——A Case Study of the Private Entrepreneur Communities in Fuzhou and Quanzhou Cities in Fujian Province
GAN Mantang (Fuzhou University)

>>Christianity, Confucianism and Civil Society
HAN Heng (Zhengzhou University)

>>Catholicism and Civil Society: A Comparative Study of Privatization and De-privatization of the Catholic Church in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taipei
HAO Zhidong (University of Macau)

>>Traditional Religious Culture and Chinese Entrepreneurship-A Case Study of Private Entrepreneur Community in Southeast China
HUANG Haibo (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)

>>Religious Market Theory and China’s Rural Christianities: Sociological Case Studies of Catholicism in Middle Hebei
LIU Fang (Fudan University)

>>A Study of the Impact of Islam on the Political Participation of the Peasants in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
LUO Qiangqiang (Ningxia University)

>>Identity, Organization, and Faith Going Public: Christians’ Civic Participation in Transitional China
MA Li (Tongji University)

>>The Attitudes of University Students in Beijing Toward Christianity
SUN Shangyang (Peking University)

>>Religious Belief and Civic Culture: Based on a Comparison Between Groups of Christianity and Buddhism in the Central Plains
WANG Ying (Henan University of Economics & Law)

>>Religious Organizations’ Self-Governance, Openness, and Civility: Case Study of a Christian Church in Beijing
YING Fuktsang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

>>A Study of the Occurrence and Development of “Religion Fever” in China’s Countryside
ZHENG Fengtian (Renmin University)

>>The Institutionalization of Christian Communities and Their Social Engagement: Case Studies on Two Kinds of Christian Institutions in Beijing
ZHONG Zhifeng (Baylor University, USA)

>>Capital along with Faith: A Study on the Charitable Behavior of the Private Entrepreneurs of Wenzhou, China
ZHOU Yi (Fudan University)