Jesse Sun,

Please note: Jesse has left the "Religious Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in World Christianity in the Graduate Program of Religion at Duke University. My research interests include mission history, Chinese Christianity, church and state relations, and religion and nationalism in modern China. While my current work is primarily historical, I use it in corporation with my former training in social science and theology to examine how non-western Christians interact with multiple identities and forces in cross-cultural settings. My dissertation will analyze the 20^th century odyssey of a fresh figure as a window to the passions and struggles arising from the Christian-patriotic synthesis of progressive Chinese Christian intellectuals.

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Recent Publications

1. Sun, Z, National Deliverance through Culture or of Culture? T. C. Chao on Christianity and Chinese Culture, International Bulletin of Mission Research, vol. 43 no. 4 (October, 2019), pp. 335-344 [doi]  [abs]
2. Sun, Z, Translating the Christian moral message: Reading Liang Fa's Good Words to Admonish the Age in the tradition of morality books, Studies in World Christianity, vol. 24 no. 2 (August, 2018), pp. 98-113 [doi]  [abs]
3. Vala, CT; Huang, J; Sun, J, Protestantism, community service and evangelism in contemporary China, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, vol. 15 no. 4 (October, 2015), pp. 305-319, Informa UK Limited [doi]  [abs]