Chinese Religions Unit
All proposals for both panels and papers are very welcome and will be given careful consideration. We encourage panel organizers to take various forms of diversity into account, including race, gender, rank, kind of institution, region, etc., especially for presenters and respondents. For gender diversity, you can look for participants in the database Women in the Study of Asian Religions (http://libblogs.luc.edu/wisar/). For our 2025 Annual Meeting of the AAR, the presidential theme is freedom, and proposals related to this topic are very welcome.
Please feel free to direct any general questions about panel and paper submissions to the co-chairs.
If you wish to contribute to the following topics, please get in touch with the contact person listed:
- "I've Got the Power: Religious Expressions of Power in Medieval China," Yuxuan Tay yuxuantay@g.ucla.edu
- East Asian Self-Cultivation Practices in Transnational Perspective, Justin Stein justin.stein@kpu.ca
- Spirit Mediums in Chinese religions, Haoran Ke kehaoran@connect.hku.hk
- Emotive Facets of Chinese Religious Life, Paul Katz mhprkatz@gate.sinica.edu.tw
- New Directions in the Study of Early Chinese Religion, Matthew Duperon duperon@susqu.edu
- Masculinities and Chinese religions, Megan Bryson mbryson4@utk.edu
This Unit is dedicated to the academic, comparative study of Chinese religions in all forms, both historical and contemporary. The Unit makes every effort to recognize Chinese voices in religious practice as well as scholarship, and applies rigorous standards of linguistic, cultural, historical, and social-scientific understanding to the study of religion in China.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rongdao Lai, McGill University | rongdao.lai@mcgill.ca | - | View |
| Susan Andrews | sandrews@mta.ca | - | View |