He Ling 何玲
is a graduate student in Religion at Yunnan Minzu University.
hu Mengyin 胡梦茵
is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at East China Normal University. She (along with Huang Jianbo) is the author of “Becoming Christians: Prayers and Subject Formation in an Urban Church in China” in Approaching Religion, and “Trends and Reflections: A Review of Empirical Studies of Christianity in Mainland China since 2000” in Review of Religion and Chinese Society.
Ke-hsien Huang 黃克先
is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. He is the author of the book Homeland, Host Country, and Heaven: A Large-Scale Religious Conversion to Christianity among Chinese Political Refugees in the 1950s (in Chinese). He has published several articles on Chinese Pentecostalism in academic journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Compass, Taiwanese Journal of Sociology, and Taiwanese Sociology.
Jiang Shen 姜伸
a researcher at Yunnan Minzu University, is mainly engaged in the sociology of religion. He is the author of “Life Practice and Cultural Reconstruction: An Investigation of mengsong aini Traditional Culture” in Mingri fengshang (in Chinese).
Kong Deji 孔德继
is a doctoral student in Rural Development and Management at the China Agricultural University. He is the author of “Research on the Narrative and Communication of Homecoming Articles during Spring Festival” in the Journal of Modern Communication (in Chinese).
Li Hui 李辉
received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Science. His research interests are contemporary Chinese Christianity, church–state relations, and the Chinese Pentecostal-Charismatic movement. He is the author of “Spiritual Politics in China: A Comparative
Lin Weizhi 林伟挚
is a doctoral student at the School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University. He is the author of “The Dynamic Equilibrium of Sacred Space and Belief Norms: A Case Study of the Changes of Xianghuo-house in Leizhou Peninsula” in the Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University (Social Sciences Edition) (in Chinese).
Yan Liu 刘焱
is a Ph.D. student majoring in Religion and Culture at the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Jonathan E. E. Pettit 裴玄錚
is Assistant Professor of Chinese Religions at the University of Hawai‘i. He received a dual Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Chinese Literature from the University of Indiana. He is the author of Library of Clouds: A Bibliographic History of Daoist Scriptures (Hawai‘i, 2020).
Wang Ling 王羚
is a senior correspondent for China Business News (Diyi caijing ribao 第一财经日报) who specializes in Chinese demographic and birth control policies, fertility desires by age, changes in fertility behaviors, and the aging of the population.
Chris White 白克瑞
received his Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from Xiamen University. He has been a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and is currently the Assistant Director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University. He is the author of Sacred Webs: The Social Lives and Networks of Minnan Protestants, 1840s–1920s (Brill, 2017) and the editor of Protestantism in Xiamen, Then and Now (Palgrave, 2019).
Xiao Yunze 肖云泽
received a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from East China Normal University and is currently a lecturer at the Zhejiang Center of Public Opinion and Research at Zhejiang University of Technology. He is the author of “Belief Patterns and Land Rules: A Case Study of Christianity Based on Land-Control Act in Province A” in logos & pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology.
is a Lecturer at the School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University. His research interests include economic sociology and the sociology of religion. He is the author of “What Makes Art Art?” in the China Agricultural University Journal (Social Sciences Edition) (in Chinese).
Fenggang Yang 杨凤岗
is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University and the founding director of the Center on Religion and the Global East. He is also the founding editor of Review of Religion and Chinese Society. He was elected as the President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2014–2015) and served as the first President of the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2018–2020). His most recent book is Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts (Brill, 2018).
Yuan Hao 袁浩
is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.
Zhang Zhipeng 张志鹏
is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Anhui University of Technology. His research interests include industrial economics, religious economics, and economic development theory. He has published several articles in Chinese academic journals, such as Academia Bimestrie, Theory, and Dongyue Tribune.
Zhao Cuicui 赵翠翠
holds a doctorate in Law and is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Religius Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science. Her specialization is religious sociology. She is the author of “Enlightenment Discourse and China’s Faith Order” in the Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) (in Chinese).
Zhao Hao 赵浩
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Southeast University. His areas of specialization include ethics, theoretical anthropology, and ethics and sociology. He has published several articles in academic journals, including Journal of Southeast University, Journal of Philosophical Analysis, and Studies in Ethics.