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JOIN US FOR THE UPCOMING CONFERENCE!
The Centre for Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences (CLASS) and Division of Sociology cordially invites all faculty
members to the Conference on 7th to 8th January 2011, at the HSS Conference Room.
Please
kindly disseminate to your colleagues who may be interested to attend.
A
registration fee of S$50 for the conference is required. The registration
fee for the conference includes admission to all sessions, daily lunches,
refreshments and conference materials. Registration fee will be waived for
NTU Staff and all students.
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to register for the conference.
For more information about the
conference, please click here.
With warm wishes,
CLASS
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
China’s
religious revival in recent years is a poignant indication of the
significant role religion continues to play in the lives of many Chinese.
As China globalizes and persists in its modernization effort, the various
religions and spiritual movements are often compelled to engage in
intricate negotiations with an officially atheistic ruling party that seeks
to maintain hegemonic control over society. According to a number of
surveys, Christianity has become one of the fastest growing religions in
China. This international conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary
platform for scholars to examine the complex ways in which Christianity
shapes, and is shaped by, China’s contemporary social and cultural
developments.
Given the
increasing transnational flows of capital, ideas and personnel in and out
of China these days, findings from the conference will shed important light
on the shifting contours of China’s civil society as religion becomes
an important element in its society and culture.
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SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers
"Signs
and Wonders: Christianity and Hybrid Modernity in China”
Professor Richard
Madsen,
University of California, San Diego
"From
'Christianity in China' to 'Chinese Christianity': Changing Paradigms and
Changing Perspectives”
Professor Peter Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Invited Speakers
"Trying
to make sense of history: Revivalist Christianity in China and their theological
political interpretation of past and present history"
Tobias Brandner, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Images
of Jesus in contemporary Chinese popular culture"
Common Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Civil
Society and the role of the Catholic Church in contemporary China"
Seguire Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
"Calvin,
culture and Christ? Developments of faith among Chinese intellectuals"
Fredrik Fällman, Stockholm University
"A
Weberian Approach to urban/rural dynamics in Christianity in contemporary
China"
Huang Ke-hsien, Northwestern University
"The
house-church identity and preservation of Pentecostal-style Protestantism
in China"
Kao Chen-yang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
"The
emergence of Christian subcultures in China: Beginnings of an inculturation
from the grassroots?"
Katrin Fiedler, China Information Desk
"Saints,
Secrets, and Salvation: Emergence and Development of Spiritual-Religious
groups in the PRC after 1978"
Kristin Kupfer, Freelance researcher
"Co-optation
and its Discontents: The Seventh-day Adventism in China"
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace University, New York
"The
religious pattern of relationship structure in contemporary China: on the
case of relationships between Buddhist and Christian"
Li Xiangping, East China Normal University
"Re-mapping
Boundaries: Christianity and community formation among the minority
nationalities"
Francis Lim, Nanyang Technological University
"Multiple
Tensions and Dualistic Structure: A Sociological Study on Religious Market
Theory and China’s Rural Christianities"
Liu Fang, Fudan University
"Christian
Identity as Disobedient Narratives during China’s Post-Communist
Transition"
Ma Li, Tongji University
Li Jin, Tongji University
"Three-Self
Protestant churches, the local state and religious policy implementation in
a north-eastern Chinese city"
Mark McLeister, University of Sheffield
"Making
Sense of China’s State-Society Relations: Protestant House Churches
in the Reform Era"
Teresa Wright, California State University, Long Beach
Teresa Zimmerman-Liu, California State University, Long Beach
"Christian
Ethics and Business Life: an ethnographic account of overseas Chinese
Christian entrepreneurs in China’s economic transition"
Joy Tong, Purdue University
"Unifying
the Nation: Protestant Reactions to the Chinese Communist Party’s
Nationalist Agenda Inside and Outside the Official Religious
Associations"
Carsten Vala, Loyola University, Maryland
"Towards
a public theology with Chinese characteristics: Prospects for engagement of
the church with the civil society"
Paul Woods, Singapore Bible College
"Sino-Christian
studies in contemporary China: A public interpretation"
Xie Zhibin, Shanghai Normal University
"The
religiosity of popular Chinese cinema and its implications for contemporary
Christianity"
Yam Chi-Keung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"A
church on the second-floor: a case study of a Protestant congregation in a
residential building in Hong Kong"
Gustav K.K. Yeung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Beyond
religion, politics, intellectuality and territory: How is Christianity
transforming China?"
Yu Ying, Nottingham University
"Migration,
Church and State: Migrant Christians and Migrant Churches in Wenzhou,
“Chinese Jerusalem”"
Zhu Yujing, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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