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FAITH & FLOURISHING
Faith and Global Engagement’s research clusters explore the engagement between faith traditions and their relation to flourishing, both for human society and its impact on the contemporary world.
Art remix of Living and Study in Mountain, by Shen Zhou (Ming Dynasty)
FAITH & FLOURSHING
Faith and Global Engagement’s research clusters explore the engagement between faith traditions and their relation to flourishing, both for human society and its impact on the contemporary world.
Art remix of Living and Study in Mountain, by Shen Zhou (Ming Dynasty)
Over the past decade, our research direction has been shaped by a series of local and global challenges – political unrest, Covid 19, social and cultural fragmentation, geo-political conflicts, disruptive technologies, and climate change. At this crucial crossroad in our region, what roles do faith traditions play in enabling flourishing to take root amidst such crises? In particular, we seek to investigate how the dynamics of Christianity’s engagement with China, both in the past and present, can contribute to the development of individual, societal, and planetary wellbeing.
We approach the question from various disciplinary perspectives, using historical and contemporary lenses to bring basic and applied research into focus. Our plan is to incorporate insights from pure research into our scholastic approach which in turn will produce new research based on the data from our teaching programmes.
Currently, our developing research cluster covers three areas:
PHILOSOPY & THEOLOGY
When Chinese philosophies talk with Christian theologies on the meaning of flourishing.
Poster art by Magnus Norstad
EDUCATION & SOCIAL SCIENCE
All about Christian and Chinese traditions in character leadership education.
Jiangnan Hometown by anonymous
URABN STUDIES, HISTORY, AND HERITAGE
Exploring the correlation of the past, present and future in flourishing cities we are living.
Historical Chinese Christian poster by anonymous
CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA
Looking into the interaction between Christianity and Chinese society and culture.
PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY
This research addresses issues of flourishing through lenses of aesthetical, axiological, and Chinese philosophies in conversation with Christian theologies.
EDUCATION & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(by Prof. Samson Tse and Dr. Hua Loon Ling)
This explores the impact of Christian and Chinese traditions on theories and practices in character and leadership education and development.
URBAN STUDIES, HISTORY, AND HERITAGE
(by Prof. Yi Samuel Chen)
This cluster aims to explore our urban past and heritage (e.g., faith traditions) from the perspective of sustainability and resilience, which in turn will shed light on our pursuit of urban sustainability and resilience in contemporary society and forging a vision for our urban futures. It focuses on three key areas of enquiry: historical knowledge and experience, the historical urban landscape, and urban re-inventiveness. Research in this cluster is by carried out through the Flourishing Cities: Past, Present, and Future Project.
CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA
This area of research focuses on Christianity in China. It examines the interaction between Christianity and Chinese society and culture, especially in the lives of prominent Christians in modern China (e.g., Xu Guangqi and Sun Yat-sen) that have a significant impact on China’s modernisation process.
Support us to become a thought leader in our research on how Christian faith helps cultivate flourishing in persons, communities, and the world, especially China.
Support us to become a thought leader in our research on how Christian faith helps cultivate flourishing in persons, communities, and the world, especially China.
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