One of the hallmarks of the 2014 prodemocr acy occupy protests in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement was the pre sence of Christians doing theology on the streets\, sometimes fused with Ca ntonese hero traditions. But in the aftermath of the movement\, how has the relationship between theology and politics developed\, especially in a tim e of greater authoritarian power exerted by the People’s Republic of China on its “Special Administrative Region”? What can be learned about the effic acy of God-talk in protest when the movement is considered to be over? How has such God-talk traveled transnationally to Vancouver?
Just in K.H. Tse is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Asian America n Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is lead editor of Theo logical Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Palgrave\, 201 6)\, and his writing can also be found in Population\, Space\, and Plac e\, Global Networks\, Progress in Human Geography\, Review of Religion in Chinese Society\, Social and Cultural Ge ography\, Chinese America: History and Perspective\, Chin g Feng\, and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion. He is wo rking on a book manuscript titled “Religious Politics in Pacific Space: Gro unding Cantonese Protestant Theologies in Secular Civil Societies\,” and a second project is under way comparing the theological afterlives of occupy protests in Hong Kong\, Kyiv\, and Seattle.
This event is organized b y the Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by the Centre for Chine se Research and the Department of Geography.
