Published on Dec 20, 2012
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The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements in China in order to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.
David Palmer, coauthor of the book, from Hong Kong University presented the book. A panel of eminent scholars of religion served as discussants: Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center; Richard Madsen, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of California San Diego and director of the UC-Fudan Center; and Philip Gorski, professor of sociology at Yale University and co-director of the Center for Comparative Research. Anna Sun, assistant professor of sociology, at Kenyon College served as moderator.
Featuring David Palmer
David Palmer is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. He has studied, lived, or conducted conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Canada, France, the US, Pakistan, Israel, West Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and mainland China. He received his B.A. from McGill University and his Ph.D. from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). Prior to joining Hong Kong University in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he served as the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.
For more on the Berkley Center, visit:http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu
The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements in China in order to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.
David Palmer, coauthor of the book, from Hong Kong University presented the book. A panel of eminent scholars of religion served as discussants: Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center; Richard Madsen, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of California San Diego and director of the UC-Fudan Center; and Philip Gorski, professor of sociology at Yale University and co-director of the Center for Comparative Research. Anna Sun, assistant professor of sociology, at Kenyon College served as moderator.
Featuring David Palmer
David Palmer is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. He has studied, lived, or conducted conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Canada, France, the US, Pakistan, Israel, West Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and mainland China. He received his B.A. from McGill University and his Ph.D. from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). Prior to joining Hong Kong University in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he served as the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.
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