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Members

Name	Research Area
A/P FEENER Michael (Cluster Leader)	Intellectual and cultural history of Islam in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
Prof BLACKBURN Anne	Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia; Buddhist monastic culture and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia
Prof van BRUINESSEN Maarten Martinus	Politics, history and philology; non-fundamentalist transnational Islamic movements in Asia
A/P LIANG Yongjia	World renunciation; Esoteric Buddhism; territorial cults; Chinese intellectual tradition
A/P TAN Sor Hoon	Chinese philosophy; pragmatism; moral and political philosophy from cross-cultural comparative perspectives
Dr ACRI Andrea	Hinduism and Indian philosophies, Sanskrit and Old Javanese languages and literatures, intellectual history of the Indic world
Dr BUSH Robin	Islam and politics in Indonesia; changing roles of mass-based religious organisations; religion and development/social justice
Dr FOUNTAIN Philip	Emerging engagements between ‘religion’ and international aid and development
Dr CHO Kyuhoon	The conceptualization of the category ‘religion’ in modern Korea; the public role of Buddhism and Christianity in a globalised Korea; the religious system of North Korea; and religion as an alternative communication system in modern global Asia
Dr MEULENBELD Mark	Various aspects of Daoism; new project on “The Ritual Ecology of Local Religion: A Daoist Village in the Hills of Central Hunan”
Dr WU Keping	Religion and development in contemporary China; anthropology of Christianity, ethnic and religious pluralism in Southwest China; conversion and Buddhism in contemporary Southeast China
Dr ZHONG Yijiang	Religion and modernity in East Asia, exploring these issues from the thematic perspectives of authority, epistemology and space

Associates

Name	Department and Organisation
A/P BELL Gary	Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
A/P SINHA Vineeta	Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
A/P WHALEN-BRIDGE John	Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
A/P WOODBERRY Robert D	Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Dr BAUTISTA Julius	Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
Dr DALY Patrick	University Scholars' Programme, National University of Singapore
Dr INANC Zeliha Gul	Department of History, National University of Singapore
Dr JAMAL Aarif	Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Dr KINGSLEY Jeremy	Tembusu College, National University of Singapore
Dr KITIARSA Pattana	Department of Southeast Studies Programme, National University of Singapore

Former Members and Visitors

Name	Research Area and Topics While at ARI
Prof TURNER Bryan Stanley	Former Cluster Leader. Social theory of religion; sociology of piety
Prof ARPS Bernard	Social and political processes in which language plays a formative role
Prof CHENG Dennis	Yijing; intellectual history of late imperial China
Prof DEAN Kenneth	Transnational temple networks originating in Southeast China, and their spread and development across Southeast Asia
Prof FORMOSO Bernard	Ethnicity and the study of religious institutions in the context of globalization
Prof HARRIS Ian Charles	Aspects of Theravada Buddhist ethics and politics; Buddhist political activism in pre-Pol Pot Cambodia, with particular emphasis on wider Southeast Asian networks
Prof HOSKINS Janet Alison	Study of transnational religion, material culture, immigration and media
Prof KONG Lily	Geographies of religion; cultural economy and cultural policy; constructions of ‘nation’ and national identity; constructions of ‘nature’ and environment
Prof NAGATA Judith Ann	Religion, ethnicity and culture in North America and Southeast Asia
Prof SHEN Haimei	Gender and ethnicity in Southwest China
Prof van der VEER Pieter	Comparison of religion and nationalism in India and China; anthropology; Indo-Iranian languages and cultures
Prof WAGHORNE Joanne	Interrelation of globalisation and religion in contemporary Hindu organisations; movements in India and the diaspora
Prof YANG Mayfair	Anthropology of religion; modernity and the state; China studies; gender and media studies
A/P BLACKBURN Anne Margaret	Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with a special interest in Buddhist monastic culture and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia before and during colonial presence in the region
A/P GOH Robbie	Nineteenth century English Literature (particularly R. L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, fin de siecle gothic writing); speculative fiction; urban landscapes; Christianity in Asia; advertising; and related topics
A/P HUANG C. Julia	Topics: Buddhist transnationalism; NGO-ness; charities and faith-based organizations; charismatic leadership; gender and religion. Areas: Taiwan; the Chinese Diaspora (in Malaysia and the United States)
A/P MARRANCI Gabriele	Identity; Muslim migration/immigration; urban sociology; globalisation; fundamentalism; political Islam; secularisation processes; criminology; anthropology of music
A/P SAMUELS Jeffrey	Intersection of religion, history and culture in South and Southeast Asia
Dr AL Makin	Classical Islamic literature, particularly on the early concept of prophet-hood; public intellectual debates in the current Islam in Indonesia
Dr BAUTISTA Julius	Catholicism in the Philippines; religious studies
Dr BUDIWANTI Erni	Ethno-religious groupings and minorities in Indonesia and Malaysia
Dr COOK Joanna Claire	Democratization of religious practice in Thailand
Dr FINUCANE Juliana	Interreligious relations; new forms of religious cosmopolitanism and missionary activity
Dr FISCHER Johan	Theoretical and empirical focus on the proliferation of halal commodities on a global scale
Dr FORMICHI Chiara	History of Islam and its contemporary manifestations in Southeast Asia with a regional focus on the Indonesian Archipelago
Dr HASAN Noorhaidi	Political Islam in contemporary Indonesia and other Muslim-populated countries in Southeast Asia
Dr HAMAYOTSU Kikue	Islam and politics in Indonesia and Malaysia
Dr KIRICHENKO Alexey	Early modern and colonial period history, monastic Buddhism, historiography, organization and representations of political power in Burma as well as history of other Southeast Asian countries
Dr MCGREGOR Katharine	History, memory, violence and cross-cultural responses to criminal trials in Indonesia
Dr MCLAUGHLIN Levi	Rise of new religious movements in the modern era
Dr NAIR Deepa	Rise of religious nationalism in India; globalization and South Asian diaspora; education and curriculum reform in South Asia
Dr RICCI Ronit	Comparative literature; South and Southeast Asian cultures
Dr RINALDO Rachel	Gender, religion, globalisation and the nation-state with a focus on Indonesia
Dr ROZARIO Santi	Gender, religion (especially Islam), modernity and sustainability; Islam, genetics and identity; women, development, NGOs, microcredit, health (childbirth) and education; inter-religious communal relations; migration and identity
Dr SALIM Arskal	Islamic legal theory; law and Muslim politics; Islam and human rights; legal anthropology of Muslim societies
Dr SCHEIFINGER Heinz	Relationship between religion (especially Hinduism) and the Internet
Dr TAMIMI M. Nasir Tamara	Islam and politics, with a focus on globalization and violence in the name of religion
Dr WEISS Richard Scott	South Asian religion, in particular Tamil South Indian Hinduism

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