Prof. Peng Yin featured on For the Life of the World Podcast
Assistant Professor of Ethics Peng Yin was interviewed on the For the Life of the World podcast on his current project on Chinese religion and politics. In this conversion, Yin talks about the religious undercurrents of Chinese political thought, the theological charges of the new Cold War discourse, the recent Euro-American democratic decay, the story of the Christian martyr Lin Zhao, and the spiritual resources of resisting totalitarianism. The podcast is produced by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
In his current book project, Yin traces religious conceptions of sovereignty from early Confucian and Legalist canon formation to Daoist and Buddhist negotiations with imperial power, from the neglected role of Christianity in the founding of the first republic and the rise of Chinese Communism to the contemporary political significance of Chinese Christianity. The first result of this research will come out this summer as “The Question of Political Legitimacy in Chinese Political Theology” in a volume edited by Kwok Pui Lan, Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives and Methods.