Dr. Jie Kang is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese Christian community, religious network, the interactive relationship between the secular state and religious groups, the inter-religious encounter between Christianity and Islam and the role of the Christian “Back to Jerusalem” missionary movement. She was awarded a PhD degree in 2014 in Sinology from the University of Leipzig. She is author of the book “House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors” published by Palgrave in 2016, and co-edited with Irfan Ahmed “The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives” in 2021.  Generally, she is interested in transnational Chinese religious networks, state-church relations, and on the relationship between religion, nationalism, secularism and globalization.

Publications

Books:

Ahmad, I., & Kang, J. (Eds.). (2022). The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85580-2_1

Kang, J. (2016). House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles:

Kang, J. (2019). The Rise of Calvinist Christianity in Urbanising China. Religions, 10(8), 481. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/8/481

Kang, J. (2015). The Concept of Social Network in Chinese Christianity / 中国基督教的社会网络概念. Cultural Diversity in China, 1(2), 219-232.

Contributions to a collected edition:

Ahmad, I., & Kang, J. (2022). Introduction: Imagining alternatives to globalization of the nation form. In I. Ahmad, & J. Kang (Eds.), The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives (pp. 3-44). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85580-2_1

Kang, J. (2022). Nationalism and Chinese protestant Christianity: From anti-imperialism to islamophobia. In I. Ahmad, & J. Kang (Eds.), The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives (pp. 175-202). Cham: Springer International Publishing. Link

Kang, J. (2021). Chinese Christian community in Germany: Home-making and Chineseness. In N. Cao, G. Giordan, & F. Yang (Eds.), Chinese religions going global (pp. 97-114). Leiden: Brill. Link

Kang, J. (2020). Rural to Urban Protestant House Churches in China. In S. Feuchtwang (ed). Handbook on Religion in China. Edward Elgar Publisher. Page. 407-430.