Revival of Confucianism in China: Confucius Institute

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Exporting Confucian culture

The National Public Raido had a series on China, featuring the rise of Confucius Institute in the United States

Joy Y. Lam

I am currently a sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California. My research areas are sociology of religion and culture. My disseratation project is to investage the social-constructed meaning of 'being religious' , through looking at the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China.

Research Interests:

Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture

On-going research projects:

'Being Confucian': the Revival of Confuicanism in Contemporary China (working title for dissertation)

'Heart and Virtue: the revival of Confuican education in contemporary China' (Project sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation)

'Transmission of Religious Across Generation' (project sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, a 3-years project researching the transmission of religion of 3-4 generations families. For more details, see here)

Link to My Articles

China's Revival of Confucianism - 9/18/2009