Fenggang Yang, Ph.D. (1997) from the Catholic University of America, is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. He is the author of Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule (2012) and Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities (1999), and the coeditor of more than ten books. He is the founding editor of the Review of Religion and Chinese Society. Two of his articles received distinguished article awards. He was elected the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2014-2015). Joy K. C. Tong, Ph.D. (2009), National University of Singapore, is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wheaton College, IL. She is also Affiliate Professor of Chinese Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, IL. She has published monographs, articles, and book chapters on China and Southeast Asia, including Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China (Anthem, 2012). Allan H. Anderson is Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham, England, where he has worked since 1995. Raised and educated in Southern Africa, he is the author of numerous articles and several books on global Pentecostalism, the most recent being An Introduction to Pentecostalism (Cambridge, 2014) and To the Ends of the Earth (Oxford, 2013).
