AHC Conference – Crossing Boundaries and Christianity in the Sinophone World

Co-organized by the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies (CSCS) and the University  Library of Hong Kong Baptist University 

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China  10-11 December 2026  

The history of Christianity/Christianities in the Sinophone world has gained much attention in the  academy.  The  resilience  of  the  Roman  Catholic,  Protestant  denominational,  and  homegrown  independent  churches,  with  multiple  expressions  of  religious  belonging,  has  been  studied  by  historians, anthropologists, and religious scholars and continues to attract ample attention. The  concept  of  “boundaries”  and  related  terms  such  as  “borders,”  “borderlands,”  “liminal,”  and  “frontiers” have shaped new lines of historical and anthropological scholarship on the diverse  experiences of foreign missionaries and native Christians in China proper and among diasporas in  Southeast Asia and beyond. Some of the notable topics include the indigenization of Catholic  religious orders and Protestant denominationalism, the proliferation of Chinese diasporic churches  in Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, and beyond, the positioning of Chinese and ethnic churches in  frontiers, the transmission and reception of Christian ideas and practices across linguistic, ethnic,  gender, political and technological boundaries, the making of personal and collective religiosities  in diverse temporal and spatial settings.