Article
Gao Z (2022) Is China Repressing or Moulding Religion? 'Religious Freedom', Post-coloniality, and the Chinese State Building. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 23 (1), pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2057478
About me
About me
I received my B.Ec. (International Economic and Trade, 2003) and M.Phil. (Religious Studies, 2005) from Renmin University of China, and M.A. (Christian Studies, 2006) and Ph.D. (Religious Studies, 2010) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I had taught at Minzu University of China (China) before joining University of Stirling in 2017. I now serve as an Interdisciplinary Senior Lecturer in Religion and Translation, Division of Literature and Languages (2017-) at the University.
Research
The early stage of my academic research mainly focused on the translatability of Christianity into Chinese culture. As one of the major participants of the Movement of Sino-Christian Studies, I considered all my research related to Christianity as translating activities, whether they are linguistic translations of English Christian literature into Chinese, or re-interpretations of Christian messages in the context of Chinese society and culture, or the practice of inter-faith dialogue between Christianity and Chinese traditions – especially through doing comparative theology. My research was also deeply interdisciplinary, consisting primarily of Christian theology in its most general sense, and lying at the intersection of translation, hermeneutics, economics, and cultural studies interaction.
My first book, 《辛劳与礼物：工作神学批判研究》（Co-creation and Gift: A Critical Study of Theologies of Work, 2015), through reflecting on the two dominant theological approaches to human work after the Reformation, tries to draft a theo-economics of human work based on the concept of “gift”. Most of my academic journal papers either are interdisciplinary Christian studies of public issues or concern the contextualization and inculturation of the Christian faith in modern China, or both. I have also translated four English academic books into Chinese and co-translated several with others.
My more recent research focuses on the history of 'religion' as a modern category in its relation to Chinese intellectual and political narratives since its being introduced to China in the end of 19th century.
Outputs (12)
Outputs
Article
Contemporary Christian Theologies of Homosexuality: A Typology
Gao Z (2019) Contemporary Christian Theologies of Homosexuality: A Typology. Journal for the Study of Christian Culture, 41, pp. 220-247. http://jscc.ruc.edu.cn/index.php?s=/Index/index/cid/335.html
Website Content
Jasper A, Hass A, Saade B, Darroch F & Gao Z (2019) Religion Under Fire. The Critical Religion Association - Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion [Website content] 05.05.2019.
Article
A Reflection on China’s Economic Reform from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching
Gao Z (2017) A Reflection on China’s Economic Reform from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching. International Journal of Public Theology, 11 (4), pp. 455-476. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341518
Article
Gao Z (2016) Doing Christian intra-religious dialogue interreligiously: Taking a Mahayana theology of agape as an example. Logos and Pneuma - Chinese Journal of Theology, (45), pp. 364-395. http://www.iscs.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=4778&Pid=13&Version=0&Cid=37&Charset=iso-8859-1
Conference Paper
Gao Z (2016) A contextual theology without context: A study of the weaknesses of contemporary Sino-Christian Theology. The 6th Roundtable Symposium of Sino-Christian Studies, Shenzen, China, 27.11.2015-30.11.2015. Logos and Pneuma - Chinese Journal of Theology, (45A), pp. 38-70. http://www.iscs.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=4821&Pid=13&Version=0&Cid=37&Charset=iso-8859-1
Authored Book
Co-creation and Gift: A Critical Study of Theologies of Work
Gao Z (2015) Co-creation and Gift: A Critical Study of Theologies of Work. Beijing: People’s Publishing House.
Authored Book
Gao Z (2015) Catholicism. Beijing: China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House.
Article
The Theology of Religions in Vatican II: An Interpretation Based on the Catholic Tradition
Gao Z (2015) The Theology of Religions in Vatican II: An Interpretation Based on the Catholic Tradition. Journal of Comparative Scripture, 5, pp. 91-130.
Article
Comparative scripture should be part of sino-christian theology: An introduction
You B & Gao Z (2015) Comparative scripture should be part of sino-christian theology: An introduction. Logos and Pneuma - Chinese Journal of Theology, (42), pp. 17-24. http://www.iscs.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/FriendlyPrint.jsp?Nid=4815&Pid=8&Version=0&Cid=377&Charset=iso-8859-1
Article
The self-emptying love: On Simone Weil's spirituality
Gao Z (2012) The self-emptying love: On Simone Weil's spirituality. Logos and Pneuma - Chinese Journal of Theology, (37), pp. 193-217.
Article
A comment on Divine Economy: Theology and the Market
Gao Z (2008) A comment on Divine Economy: Theology and the Market. Logos and Pneuma - Chinese Journal of Theology, (28), pp. 275-287.
Teaching
Teaching
RELU912 Religion, Nationalism and Colonialism RELU914 Method and Theory of Religion RELU9AD Critical Introduction to Christianity RELU9MM Religion, Capitalism and Consumerism TRNU9A5 Practical Translation II TRNU9A7 Practical Translation III CTTPP01 Cultural Translation