Evangelical Christianity and the Brethren Movement
Christian Circulations was published by NUS Press in 2020!
Christian CIrculations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. [The illustration is a group photograph taken at the Charismatic Church of Penang.]
Reviews:
Brethren Historical Review Vol. 17, 2021, pp. 178-181 (David Woodbridge)
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 94, Pt. 2, No. 321, December 2021, pp. 206-210 (Barbara Watson Andaya, 2021)
Review of Religion and Chinese Society Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 300-304 (Joshua Dao Wei Sim)
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Vol. 36, No. 3, November 2021, pp/ 555-558 (Jayeel Cornelio)
Articles and Book Chapters
2022 "Pietism, the Brethren Movement, and the Globalization of Evangelical Christian Practice." Special issue: Maritime Missions, edited by Jenna Gibbs and Sünne Juterczenka. Journal of Early Modern History, forthcoming.
2020 "Startling, Stubborn Things: Prayer and the Ministry of Deliverances in China and Southeast Asia." In The Brethren and the Church. Studies in Brethren History, edited by Neil Dickson and T[homas] J[ohn] Marinello, pp. 371-387. Glasgow: Brethren Archivists and Historians Network.
2017 "Emplacing a Network Religion in a World in Motion: Evangelical Christianity and the Brethren Movement in Penang." In Penang and its Networks of Knowledge: Essays on Society, Culture, and History, edited by Peter Zabielskis, pp. 83-114. Penang, Malaysia: Areca Books and Penang Heritage Trust.[I]
2015 "The Brethren Movement and Evangelical Christianity in Singapore and Penang, Malaysia." In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, edited by Rosalind Hackett and Simon Coleman, pp. 72-94. New York: New York University Press.
2011 "Moses' Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China." In Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in SoutheastAsia, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-chin Chang, pp. 380-404. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
2010 "On Women and Chinese Festival Foods in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore." In Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore in a special issue on "Women and Chinese Religion" edited by Daniel Overmyer. 168 (2010.6): 179-223.
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.
2008 "Asia’s Antioch: Prayer and Proselytism in Singapore." In Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars, edited by Rosalind Hackett, pp. 155-184. London: Equinox Publishers.
2008 "Global Christian Culture and the Antioch of Asia." In Religious Diversity and Harmony in Singapore, edited by Lai Ah Eng, pp. 116-41. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
2005 "Christianity and Chinese Religious Culture in Singapore: Anthropological Perspectives." In Facing Faiths, Crossing Cultures: Key Trends and Issues in a Multicultural World. Dialogues with Chandra Muzaffar, Ibrahim Abu-Rabi’ and Jean DeBernardi, edited by Lai Ah Eng, pp. 178-225. Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and SNP-reference.
2002 "Epilogue." Invited contribution to a special issue of Culture and Religion focussed on the Charismatic Christian Faith Movement 3(1): 125-28.
2001 "The Localization of Christianity among Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia," in Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies: Regional Interdependence and International Influence, edited by Jocelyn Armstrong, Warwick Armstrong, and Kent Mulliner, pp. 171-208. London: Curzon Press.
2001 "'If the Lord Be Not Come. . .': End-Time Teachings and Evangelical Practice in the Brethren Movement in Singapore," in Journal of Ritual Studies 15(1): 4-16.
1999 "Spiritual Warfare and Territorial Spirits: The Globalization and Localization of a ‘Practical Theology’," in Religious Studies and Theology 18(2): 66‑96.
1998 "Towards a Chinese Christian Hymnody: Processes of Musical and Cultural Synthesis," in Asian Music 29(2): 83-113, coauthored with Vernon Charter (JED 50%/ VC 50%).