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Dr Hue Guan Thye commenced his appointment as Senior Research Fellow with the Religion and Globalisation Cluster on 1 September 2021.

Dr Hue has a PhD in Chinese Studies from Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese popular religion in Singapore and Malaysia, Chinese Education, and Chinese in Southeast Asia. He has authored The Buddha Lights of Lion City: The Hundred-Year Development of Buddhism in Singapore (2020), Chinese Epigraphic Materials in Singapore: 1819 –1911 (2017, with Kenneth Dean), The Propagation of Taoism and Buddhism in Singapore (2013), and A Study of the Development of Chinese Buddhism in Singapore (2010, with Nengdu et al.).  His current research project is 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.