Framing the Study of Religion in Modern China and Taiwan: Concepts, Methods and New Research Paths
| When: | We 09-12-2015 at 09:00 |
| Where: | Old Court Room, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen |
This conference is funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the KNAW Congressubsidiefonds.
Conference organizer: Dr. Stefania Travagnin.
For more information and conference registration please contact Dr. Stefania Travagnin (s.travagnin rug.nl)
Conference website: Framing the Study of Religion in Modern China and Taiwan: Concepts, Methods and New Research Paths
Programme day 1 (9 December)
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19.00-20.00 |
Welcome by Stefania Travagnin (Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture in Asia, University of Groningen) Keynote Speech: Fenggang Yang – The Definition of Religion for a Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond |
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20.00-22.00 |
Reception |
Programme Day 2 (10 December): Discussing History of the Field and Research Methodologies
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9.00-9.30
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Registration Welcome by Kocku von Stuckrad (Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen) Welcome by Tjalling Halbertsma (Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies Groninen, University of Groningen) Welcome by Joost Herman (Director of Globalisation Studies Groningen, University of Groningen) |
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From Alexandra David-Néel to Kristofer Schipper: Pioneers in the Study of Religion in Modern China and Taiwan |
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9.30-11.20 |
Christopher Daily |
From Missionaries to Scientists: A History of the Scientific Study of Chinese Protestant Christianity |
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Vincent Goossaert |
Studying Daoist Canons |
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Rongdao Lai |
Historiography as Legitimacy: Revisiting Historical Writing in Modern Chinese Buddhism |
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Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa |
Encountering the Other in Study of Chinese Religions: Constructing Borderland Religions in Chinese and Western Scholarship of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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Wai-yip Ho |
From Neglected Problem to Flourishing Field: Recent Development of Studying Muslims and Islam in China |
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11.20-11.40 |
coffee break |
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11.40-12.40 |
discussion |
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12.40-14.00 |
lunch |
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From History to the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Challenges and New Research Paths |
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14.30-16.20
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Brian J. Nichols |
Ethnographically-informed Studies of Buddhism in China: The State of the Field
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Susan McCarthy |
Political Science and the Study of Religion in China |
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André Laliberté |
The Study of Religion and Politics in China |
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Rebecca Nedostup |
Religion and Nation in Space and Time: The Death Test |
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Yen-zen Tsai |
Food Fellowship and the Making of a Chinese Church: Cases from Contemporary China and Taiwan |
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16.20-16.40 |
coffee break |
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16.40-18.00 |
discussion |
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19.00 |
dinner |
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Programme day 3 (11 December): Discussing Critical Concepts
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Updating Concepts I
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9.00-11.10 |
Jason Clower |
Jia 家 : Family Tree and the Kinship of New Confucianism to Modern Buddhism |
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Paul Katz |
On the Judicial Continuum, and the Study of Chinese Legal Culture |
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May-fair Yang |
Of Mothers and Goddesses: Religiosity and Women’s Agency in Wenzhou |
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Stefania Travagnin |
From xue 學 to jiaoyu 教育 : Conceptual understanding of ‘study’ and ‘education’ in modern Chinese Buddhism |
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Ester Bianchi |
Understanding jielü 戒律 : broad and narrow senses of the conception of ‘monastic discipline’ in modern Chinese Buddhism |
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Gregory Adam Scott |
‘Scripture’ as a Critical Term in Modern Chinese Buddhism |
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11.10-11.30 |
coffee break |
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11.30-12.30 |
discussion |
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12.30-14.00 |
lunch |
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Updating Concepts II
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14.30-16.40 |
Ya-pei Kuo |
Positive Conceptions of Religion in the Early Republic |
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Erik Hammerstrom |
On Assessing the Impact of Scientific Rhetoric in Modern Chinese Religion: A Prolegomenon |
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Elena Valussi |
The concept of gender in the development of late Qing and Republican religious discourse - from zhongnan qingnü 重男輕女 to nannü pingdeng 男女平等 |
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Weishan Huang |
Methodological Globalization? A sociological attempt on religious studies on China |
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Adam Yuet Chau |
The Rise of the Religion Sector (zongjiaojie 宗教界 ) in Modern China |
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James Miller |
The Application of Daoist Thought to the Cross Cultural Study of Religion and Environment |
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16.40-17.00 |
coffee break |
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17.00-18.00 |
discussion |
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19.00 |
dinner |
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Programme day 4 (12 December): The Global Relevance of the Study of Religion in Modern China and Taiwan: A Roundtable
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9.00-11.30 |
Chair: Kocku von Stuckrad |
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11.30-12.00 |
Coffee and planning for future research on the subject |