朱安之博士

Degree(s):

• M.A. (Honours) English Language, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
• M.Div., Regent College, Canada
• Ph.D., University of St Andrews, U.K.

Taught previously at:

• Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong
• Regent College, Canada
• University of St Andrews, U.K.

Courses Taught currently

• ARTD 7010 RPG Research Methodology Seminar in the Arts and Humanities
• ITS 1018 Transdisciplinary Guided Study I
• ITS 1019 Transdisciplinary Guided Study II
• RELI 2036 Social Scientific Study of Religion
• RELI 3077 Religion and Social Movements

Teaching area(s):

• Social Scientific Study of Religion
• Sociology of Religion
• Theological Ethics
• Practical Theology

Research area(s):

Selected output(s):

• Stanley Hauerwas and ‘Chan Tai-man’: an Analysis of Hong Kong Laypeople's Lived Theology and Hong Kong Theologians’ Engagement with Stanley Hauerwas's Political Theology from a Practical Theology Perspective.” Practical Theology  16.2 (2023): 262-276. (Scopus and A&HCI Indexed Journal)

• Chu, Ann Gillian and John Perry. “‘If the Gospel we Preach Disregards Human Rights, I would Rather not Preach this Gospel’: Towards a Lived Theology of Hong Kong Churches.” Theology Today 79.4 (2023): 422-434. (Scopus and A&HCI Indexed Journal)

• “Digital Research and COVID-19: An Argument for using both Primary and Qualitative Secondary Data in a Hong Kong Ethnography.” Ethnographic Encounters 12.1 (2022): 14-21.
• “From Folk Religion to Evangelical Christianity: A Case Study on the Process and Challenges of Retirement-age Chinese Males Converting from Folk Taoism to Evangelical Christianity in Hong Kong.” Asian American Theological Forum  8.2 (2021): 3-9.
• “Faith and Status Quo: What can Post-Handover Hong Kong Churches Learn from Liberation Theology?” Hill Road 23.45 (2020): 137-149.

Selected Conference Presentations:

• Invited Presentation: "Hong Kong Christianity and Social Activism," University of British Columbia Hong Kong Studies Initiative -- State of Hong Kong Studies: an International Workshop, 10 June 2023.
• Invited Presentation: "Analysis and Evaluation of Hong Kong Theologians’ Engagement with the Political Theology of Stanley Hauerwas with Respect to the Occupy Central and Umbrella Movements,” The Tenth International Young Scholars’ Symposium on “Christianity and Chinese Society and Culture,” 7 December 2021.
• Invited Presentation: “Lived Theology and Narrative Portraits in Hong Kong Churches,” 2021 Asian American Theology Conference, 24 April 2021.
• Invited Presentation: “An Analysis of the Christian Church’s Response to the Handover of Hong Kong around 1997,” Hong Kong Sociological Association 21st Annual Conference, 30 November 2019.
• Invited Presentation: “An Analysis of the Understanding of and Engagement with Stanley Hauerwas’ Theological Convictions Among Selected Hong Kong Theologians in the Occupy Central and Umbrella Movements,” American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and American Schools of Oriental Research – Pacific Northwest Region Annual Meeting, 11 May 2018.

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Accessibility Fund Award Winner, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, 2021-22
• Support Fund Award Winner, British Sociological Association, 2021-22

• Ethics Series: Applied Ethics and Accountancy - a Conversation," at the Association of Women Accountants, Hong Kong, delivered with Dr Baldwin
  Wong. Online. 12 July 2023.

• "An Analysis of Hong Kong Lay Christians' Lived Theology," in the Hong Kong Insights, a publication by Hong Kong Studies Association (8 May 2023). Online: https://www.hongkongstudiesassociation.co.uk/2023/05/an-analysis-of-hong-kong-lay-christians.html

• "有接觸才會開始理解:從基督教人文主義看世界," in the Christian Times (21 May 2021). Online: https://christiantimes.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=165603&Pid=104&Version=0&Cid=2052&Charset=big5_hkscs

• "淺談對英國國會跨黨派小組的誤解," in Think Hong Kong (2 April 2021). Online: https://www.thinkhk.com/article/2021-04/02/48213.html

• "F&A Series: What has Jerusalem got to do with Hong Kong? How Christian Voices are being heard in the midst of Hong Kong Protests (2 Parts)," in Religion in Public, a publication by the Centre for Religion and Public Life, the University of Leeds (25 January 2021). Online: https://religioninpublic.leeds.ac.uk/2021/01/25/fa-series-what-has-jerusalem-got-to-do-with-hong-kong-how-christian-voices-are-being-heard-in-the-midst-of-hong-kong-protests-part-1-of-2/

• "Where China's Crackdown Leaves the Hong Kong Church," in Christianity Today (17 June 2020). Online: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/quick-to-listen/hong-kong-christians-protests-speaking-out.html

• "What do You Mean, Colour?" in Blogos, a publication by the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, the University of St Andrews (31 May 2020). Online: https://blogos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/05/31/logia-for-may-2020-what-do-you-mean-colour-by-ann-gillian-chu/

• "A Perspective of Christianity on Civil Disobedience: A Study of Hong Kongʼs Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement," in Women in Theology (27 April 2020). Online: https://womenintheology.org/2020/04/27/a-perspective-of-christianity-on-civil-disobedience-a-study-of-hong-kongs-occupy-central-and-the-umbrella-movement/

• "James K. A. Smith 文化禮儀三部曲│Cultural Liturgies Series 說書會," at Logos Publishers, Hong Kong. In- Person. 18 January 2020.

• "Hong Kong: City of Protests, City of God?" in LSE Religion and Global Society Interdisciplinary Blog (4 December 2019). Online: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2019/12/hong-kong-city-of-protests-city-of-god/