Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity and Cultural Transmission Workshop on Religion, Secularism, and Modernity in Asia

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did religious leaders respond to these changes? How do we rethink the present and the past, in China and elsewhere, as we become more aware of the constructed and provisional nature of these categories fundamental to our perceptions of the world? These are the questions that the CRASSH workshop on Religion, Secularism, and Modernity in Asia will explore. The workshop is the final event organized by the AHRC Network ‘Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity, and Cultural Transmission’.