04 Jun 2024
Tiananmen Square 1989: A Watershed of the Chinese Great Awakening
Overview On this special 35th anniversary, this lecture argues that the 1989 Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Square Massacre triggered the Chinese Great Awakening. Thenceforward, Christianity has been the fastest-growing religion in China because it has become culturally indigenized, socially contextualized, and politically engaged, making it the most appealing religion for the Chinese in pursuit of modernity in the globalizing world.
Speaker Dr. Fenggang Yang
About the speaker Dr. Fenggang Yang is a Professor of Sociology and the founding Director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is working on a book, The Rise of Christianity in Modernizing China (Oxford University Press).
Passage: On this special 35th anniversary, this lecture argues that the 1989 Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Square Massacre triggered the Chinese Great Awakening. Thenceforward, Christianity has been the fastest-growing religion in China because it has become culturally indigenized, socially contextualized, and politically engaged, making it the most appealing religion for the Chinese in pursuit of modernity in the globalizing world.
