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Religion and Globalisation

Ongoing

Business Networks in a Global City: Chinese Merchants’ Records in Singapore since the Late 19th Century

PI & Co-PI(s): Yu Kang

Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant

Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean (NUS PI) & Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po PI)

Funding Agency: Paris-NUS Grant

Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Ian Chong

Collaborator(s): Khun Eng Kuah, Orlando Woods, Wong Sin Kiong, Ying Ruo Show, Danny Wong Tze-Ken, Ngeow Chow-Bing, Emily Hertzman, Kwee Hui Kian & Charlotte Setijadi

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2

Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Wu Qi

Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant

ISAC: Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics

PI & Co-PI(s): Michel Chambon & Bernardo E. Brown

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples 1974-2021

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Caroline Chia & Xue Yiran

Funding Agency: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Cohesion, Community Care and Confidence in Singaporean Chinese Temples and Associations and Other Asian Religious Institutions: The Impacts of Globalisation and Religious Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Manimaran Pushpanatan

Funding Agency: Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

Chinese Huiguan and the Re-making of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Ningning Chen

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1

Mapping Female Religious Heritage in Singapore: Chinese Female Temples as Sites of Regional Socio-Cultural Linkage (19th Century to the Present)

PI & Co-PI(s): Show Ying Ruo & Kenneth Dean

Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant

Datuk Spirits in the City of a Thousand Temples: Chinese Indonesian Spirit-medium Practices and Ethnic Politics in Singkawang, West Kalimantan

PI & Co-PI(s): Emily Hertzman

Funding Agency: Collaborative Research Fund of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (C7052-18G)

CoronoAsur: Religion and Covid-19

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Carola Lorea, Fabian Graham, Nan Ouyang, Natalie Lang, Ning Ning Chen, Ying Ruo Show, Alicia Chan, Emily Hertzman & Erica M. Larson

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS & Yap Kim Hao Memorial Fund for Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Notebooks of the 19th and 20th Century Bengalis Saint-Composers

PI & Co-PI(s): Carola Lorea

Funding Agency: Endangered Archives Programme (EAP1247), British Library

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: 1911–2019 and Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Caroline Chia & Xue Yiran

Funding Agency: The Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Qing Dynasty Tombs of Singapore: A Digital Archival Project

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Feng Chen-Chieh & Wang Yi-Chen

Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant

Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Circulation

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Kim Hui Yeon

Collaborator(s): Shanthini Pillai, Claire Tran Thi Liên, Kwanchewan Buadaeng & Bernardo Brown

Funding Agency: National University of Singapore & Université Sorbonne Paris Cité

Collective Biography of the Singapore Chinese Community (1922–1972): The Digitization and Analysis of the Bukit Brown Burial Records in the National Archives

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Ong Chang Woei, Koh Khee Heong & Hue Guan Thye

Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant

Religious Elites & Mobility: Catholic Priestly Formation in South and Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Bernardo Brown

Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS

Religion and NGOs in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush & Wu Keping

Funding Agency: Henry Luce Foundation

Religion and Gobalisation Reading Group

PI & Co-PI(s): Robin Bush, Philip Fountain & Bernardo Brown

Religion and Development in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Lim Khek Gee Francis, Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, Wu Keping, Kyuhoon Cho & Ronojoy Sen

Networks in Practice (2009–2014)

Islam and Social Dynamics in Indonesia: Comparative Analyses of Law, Culture, Politics and Religion since c.1998 in Three Decisive Regions (Java, Jakarta and Aceh)

PI & Co-PI(s): Merle Calvin Ricklefs, Michael Feener & Chaider S. Bamualim

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2

Measuring Social Distance in Plural Societies: The Singapore Case

PI & Co-PI(s): Bryan Stanley Turner & Alexius Pereira

Funding Agency: NUS Academic Research Fund

Religion and Globalisation

Ongoing

Business Networks in a Global City: Chinese Merchants’ Records in Singapore since the Late 19th Century

Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law

Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples

Completed

ISAC: Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples 1974-2021

Cohesion, Community Care and Confidence in Singaporean Chinese Temples and Associations and Other Asian Religious Institutions: The Impacts of Globalisation and Religious Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Chinese Huiguan and the Re-making of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Mapping Female Religious Heritage in Singapore: Chinese Female Temples as Sites of Regional Socio-Cultural Linkage (19th Century to the Present)

Datuk Spirits in the City of a Thousand Temples: Chinese Indonesian Spirit-medium Practices and Ethnic Politics in Singkawang, West Kalimantan

CoronoAsur: Religion and Covid-19

Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Notebooks of the 19th and 20th Century Bengalis Saint-Composers

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: 1911–2019 and Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples

Qing Dynasty Tombs of Singapore: A Digital Archival Project

Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Circulation

Collective Biography of the Singapore Chinese Community (1922–1972): The Digitization and Analysis of the Bukit Brown Burial Records in the National Archives

Religious Elites & Mobility: Catholic Priestly Formation in South and Southeast Asia

Religion and NGOs in Asia

Religion and Gobalisation Reading Group

Religion and Development in Asia

Networks in Practice (2009–2014)

Islam and Social Dynamics in Indonesia: Comparative Analyses of Law, Culture, Politics and Religion since c.1998 in Three Decisive Regions (Java, Jakarta and Aceh)

Measuring Social Distance in Plural Societies: The Singapore Case

Secularization, Religion and the State (2006–2011)

Social Transformation in Post-Tsunami/Post-Conflict Aceh (2006–2011)

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Religion and Globalisation

Ongoing

Business Networks in a Global City: Chinese Merchants’ Records in Singapore since the Late 19th Century

Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law

Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples

Completed

ISAC: Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples 1974-2021

Cohesion, Community Care and Confidence in Singaporean Chinese Temples and Associations and Other Asian Religious Institutions: The Impacts of Globalisation and Religious Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Chinese Huiguan and the Re-making of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Mapping Female Religious Heritage in Singapore: Chinese Female Temples as Sites of Regional Socio-Cultural Linkage (19th Century to the Present)

Datuk Spirits in the City of a Thousand Temples: Chinese Indonesian Spirit-medium Practices and Ethnic Politics in Singkawang, West Kalimantan

CoronoAsur: Religion and Covid-19

Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Notebooks of the 19th and 20th Century Bengalis Saint-Composers

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: 1911–2019 and Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples

Qing Dynasty Tombs of Singapore: A Digital Archival Project

Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Circulation

Collective Biography of the Singapore Chinese Community (1922–1972): The Digitization and Analysis of the Bukit Brown Burial Records in the National Archives

Religious Elites & Mobility: Catholic Priestly Formation in South and Southeast Asia

Religion and NGOs in Asia

Religion and Gobalisation Reading Group

Religion and Development in Asia

Networks in Practice (2009–2014)

Islam and Social Dynamics in Indonesia: Comparative Analyses of Law, Culture, Politics and Religion since c.1998 in Three Decisive Regions (Java, Jakarta and Aceh)

Measuring Social Distance in Plural Societies: The Singapore Case

Secularization, Religion and the State (2006–2011)

Social Transformation in Post-Tsunami/Post-Conflict Aceh (2006–2011)

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