The LEWI International Conference on “The Chinese Catholic Church: Regional and Local Studies, Late Qing-Present” and a “A Roundtable to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Teilhard de Chardin’s Death” will be held June 4-5, 2015, in Hong Kong.
The conference will take an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the Chinese Catholic Church. Professors, researchers, post-doc fellows and graduate students of History, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Humanities and Translation are welcome to join.
CONFERENCE THEMES:
I. Regional and Local Studies
– Regional, provincial and local case studies;
– Modern and contemporary events and personalities;
– Cross-cultural, intercultural and transcultural case studies;
– The role of women in the Chinese Catholic Church;
– Bible translations;
– Foreign Catholic missionary groups in Chinese society;
– Comparisons between Chinese church communities on the mainland, in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan; and
– The impact of Vatican II on the Chinese Catholic Church
II. The development of theology based on the works of Teilhard de Chardin
-Teilhard de Chardin, the person and his work; and
-Theological works based on the contribution of Teilhard de Chardin