Dr. Gideon Elazar
CV
2020-2021: Postdoctoral fellow, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Ariel University.
2015-2017: Postdoctoral fellow, Center for the Study of Religious Conversion and Inter-religious Encounters, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.
2009-2010: Chinese Language Studies, Chinese language Eastern Language College, Kunming, China.
2008-2009: MA, History Department, Haifa University, Dean’s List.
2003- 2007: BA, East Asian Studies & General History, Haifa University, Graduated with Excellence.
Research
Gideon Elazar
research areas: Ethnic and Religious Identites in Cotemporary China
Church and state realtions in China
Buddhist and Daoist Philosophy
Publications
Forthcoming 2022: The Missionaries Return: Christianity, Ethnicity and State Control in Globalized Yunnan, University of Pennsylvania Press (397 pages)
2022: "Searching for Shangrila: Tibetan Authenticity, Buddhist Revival and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier". Modern China. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004211073513
2019: "Nominalism: Negotiating Ethnicity and Christian Identity in Contemporary Yunnan". Modern Asian Studies 53 (5): 1415-1449.
2018: "Out of Space: Christian Deterritorialization and Space Production in Yunnan". Asian Ethnology 77 (1&2): 121-143.
2016: "Translating Culture: Missionaries and Linguists in Contemporary Yunnan Province". Asian Ethnicity Vol.18 (3): 387-405
2017: "China in the Red Sea: The Djibouti Naval Base and the Return of Admiral Zheng He", Perspectives, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 23, https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-red-sea-djibouti/
2017: "Moving Westwards: The Chinese Rebuilding of Syria", Perspectives, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 5, https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/moving-westward-chinese-rebuilding-syria/
2018: "The Vision of Hong Xiuquan", In Ora Limor, Haim Hames, Sarina Chen(eds.) Reading Religious Conversion-online course edx mooc, 2018. (Peer reviewed).
2018: "Out of Space: Christian Deterritorialization and Space Production in Yunnan". Asian Ethnology 77 (1&2): 121-143.
2019: "Nominalism: Negotiating Ethnicity and Christian Identity in Contemporary Yunnan". Modern Asian Studies 53 (5): 1415-1449.
2020: "The Challenge of Diversity: Evangelical Missionaries and Ethno-Christianity in Reform era Yunnan", In Religious Diversity in Asia. J. Borup, M. Fibiger and L. Kuhle (Eds). Leiden: Brill, p. 119-144.
Forthcoming 2022: "Searching for Shangrila: Tibetan Authenticity, Buddhist Revival and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier". Modern China.
Forthcoming 2022: "The Status of Religion in Cotemporary China". In The Red Book: Getting to Know China – Society, Government, Economy and Foreign Relations. Ed., Eyal Proper. Institute of National Security Studies (Hebrew).
Forthcoming 2022: "Finding Lost Jews in Asia: The Search for Restored Authenticity and the Rewriting of Zionist History". In Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence. Rotem Kowner and Itamar Theodor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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