Modernization of Daoism in China and Singapore

Articles and Book Chapters

2016    "On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age."  Forthcoming in Place/No Place: Spatial Aspects of Urban Asian Religiosity, edited by Joanne Waghorne. Singapore: Asia Research Institute-Springer Publication series. Scheduled for publication in June 2016.  24 pp.

2015    "Wudang Daoist Tea Culture." In Re-Orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Kwang-ok Kim, pp. 56-70. New York: Berghahn.

2013    "A Northern God in the South:  Xuantian Shangdi in Singapore and Malaysia."  In Chinese Popular Religion:  Linking Fieldwork and Theory:  Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Sinology, pp. 49-72.  Taipei: Academia Sinica. PDF

2010    "Remaking Tradition in a World in Motion: Towards a Theory of Globalization and Religious Modernity." Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences,  Issue 2 (June 2010).

2010    "Wudang Mountain and the Modernization of Daoism." Journal of Daoist Studies.  Vol. 3: 202-210.

2009    "'Ascend to Heaven and Stand on a Cloud':  Daoist Teachings and Practice at Penang's Taishang Laojun Temple."  In The People and the Dao: New Studies of Chinese Religions in Honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer. Edited by Philip Clart and Paul Crowe, pp. 143-184. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica.

2009    Zai Shunxi Wanbiande Shijieli Zhongjian Chuantong—Tanqiu Quanquihua he Zongjiao ji Chuantong Wenhua Xiandaixingde Lilun ("Remaking Tradition in a World in Motion:  Towards a Theory of Globalization and Religous Modernity"), translated by Leilei Chen.  InZongguo Shehiu Kexue Jikan (Chinese Journal of Social Sciences) June 2009, Volume 27: 142-47.

2009    "Wudang Mountain and Mount Zion in Taiwan:  Syncretic Processes in Space, Ritual Performance, and Imagination." Published in a special issue of the Asian Journal of Social Science on religious syncretism edited by Daniel Goh. Vol. 37 (2009): 138-162. PDF

2008    "Wudang Mountain:  Staging Charisma and the Modernization of Daoism." Chenghuang Xinyang [City God Belief], edited by Ning Ngui Ngi, pp. 273-280. Singapore: Lorong Koo Chye Sheng Hong Temple Association.

2008 "Commodifying Blessings:  Celebrating the Double-Yang Festival in Penang, Malaysia and Wudang Mountain, China." In Marketing Gods: Rethinking Religious Commodifications in Asia, edited by Pattana Kitiarsa, pp. 49-67.  London:  Routledge.