Chinese Christianities Unit
The Chinese Christianities Unit is an intellectual community committed to understanding Chinese Christianities not as any singular pre-bounded identity of geography, ethnicity, politics, language, or denomination, but rather as a lens for appreciating the dynamisms and contestations of such experiences, commitments, and concerns as generative in religious aspirations and social life.
- Chinese Transnationalism and Public/Political Theology: Apocalyptic Imaginations of the Past and the Future
We invite reflection on the eschatalogical and/or apocalyptic imaginations which Chinese Christian communities have generated or are generating, as well as their implications for public and/or political life locally and/or around the world.
- Theological Education and Chinese Missions in the 21st Century: Seminaries and Bible Colleges Around the World
Though under-studied in the academy, Chinese-language seminaries and Bible colleges – both in East Asia and in myriad countries around the world – deeply shape the theological tenor, evangelical aims, and social aspirations of Christianity. We invite papers that attend to these dynamics of formation and missioning in Chinese Christianities globally today.
- Gendered Experience: Present Realities and Future Trajectories
Since the field of Chinese Christianities remains dominated by histories and endeavors of heterosexual men, we invite attention to contestations and retrenchments around gender (e.g. women, LGBTQ+) in Chinese Christian communities around the world in different cultural and legal contexts.
- 50 Years After the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Fractured Memories, Tentative Hopes
On the half-centennial anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), we invite papers that reflect upon the importance of that time for Chinese Christian identities around the world, wrought in narration of past, present, and future.
