Ke-Hsien Huang
黃克先
Title：Professor
Research Interests：Sociology of Religion (Religious development in China and Taiwan, State-church relationship); Urban Underclass (Homeless, delinquents); Qualitative methods (field work); Microsociology
Tel：+886-2-3366-1224
Email：huangk@ntu.edu.tw
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I am a sociologist who utilizes qualitative methods, particularly field work, to collect data for answering questions in two research areas. One is marginalized groups in modern cities, such as homeless people and deviant teenagers. I specifically pay attention to a continuous, interactive process between the state’s regime of governance and these individuals in Taiwan. The other is sociology of religion, in which my empirical attention is focused on Christianity in broader Chinese world. I am intrigued by how new forms of religiosity emerge out of specific political economy and socio-cultural contexts.
Education
Sociology, Ph. D. , Northwestern University (2013)
Employment
Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, 2023.8-
Deputy Director, the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), National Science and Technology Council, 2024.1-
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, 2018.8-2023.7
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, 2014.8-2018.7
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of the Study of Religious Diversity, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany, 2013.8-2014.7
Book (peer-reviewed)
- Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) Precarious Living: Homeless People and the Helping Networks in Taiwan。Taipei: Springhill (in Chinese). [English abstract]
Awarded with (1) Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award, (2) Golden Tripod Award, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, (3) Best Chinese Books of 2022 by OpenBook (4)International Convention of Asian Scholars [ICAS] Book Prize-Chinese edition.
- Lin, Weiping, and Ke-hsien Huang eds. (2022) Ambience Contaminated: Sensory Experiences and the Frontier of Religion. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press (in Chinese).
Journal Article (peer-reviewed)
*Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) Transnational Religion and Limited Party-Statehood: Reexamining the State-Church Relationship of the Presbyterian Church through Surveillance Document. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 70: 1-76. (in Chinese)
*Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) The Operation and Consequences of the Social Welfare System for the Homeless in Taiwan: The Approach of Street-level Bureaucrat Governance. Taiwanese Sociology 41: 51-94. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2020) Defending Dignity with/as God: Homeless Religious Practices When Interacting with Religious Groups. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 68: 1-59. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2019) Crooks, Laborers, and the Miserable: The Homeless in Taiwan as Subject Acting within Field. Taiwanese Sociology 38: 63-114. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2017) Two-Layered Reflexivity of Believers in a Secular Age: Religious Discourse and Religious Experiences among Christian College Students in China. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 61: 1-50. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2016) Sect-to-Church Movement in Globalization: Transforming Pentecostalism and Coastal Intermediaries in Contemporary China. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(2): 407-416. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12257
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2015) Segmented yet Entangled, Interdependent Faith Revivals: Rural Migrants’ Lived Religion in Urban Chinese Churches. Taiwanese Sociology) 30: 55-98. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2014) Book Review on Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China: A Case Study of the Influence of Christian Ethics on Business Life by Joy Kooi-Chin Tong (London and New York: Anthem Press, 2013), Journal of Chinese Religions, 42(2): 252-254.
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2013) Religious Unpaid Labor in an American Ethnic-Chinese Church as Moral Community: A Durkheimian Reply to Religious Economy. Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies 12(2): 61-82. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2012) Helping Professions and Multidimensional Emotional Labor: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Spouse Services between Social Workers and Lay Helpers in Taiwan. Taiwanese Sociology 24: 99-154. (in Chinese)
Book and Book Chapters ( peer- reviewed)
*Huang, Ke-hsien (2024) Political Struggle, Churches’ Authority and Believers’ Subjectivity in Hong Kong, in Ho, Ming-sho (ed.) Incomplete Revolution: Hong Kongers’ Democrative Movements and Everyday Resistance,. New Taipei: Rive Gauche Publishing House, pp. 217-254.
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2022) Religious Group Dancing with the Society: Christianity and Social Change in Taiwan, in Chi, Wei-hsien (ed.) Laicization, Cultivation and Translcoality: Sociological Interpretation of Religions in Contemporary Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp. 159-181. (in Chinese)
* Lin, Weiping and Ke-hsien Huang (2022) Introduction, in Lin, Weiping and Ke-hsien Huang (eds.) Ambience Contaminated: Sensory Experiences and the Frontier of Religion. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp.1-35. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2022) Ambient Religion in State-driven Secularism: The Case of Chinese Christian College Students. in Lin, Weiping and Ke-hsien Huang (eds.) Ambience Contaminated: Sensory Experiences and the Frontier of Religion. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp. 39-70. (in Chinese)
*Huang, Ke-hsien (2021). “Chapter 13: Governing Undesirable Religion: Shifting Christian Church-State Interaction.” In Hsu, Szu-chien, Kellee S. Tsai and Chun-chih Chang (ed.) Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism. Harvard University Press, pp. 362-386 .
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) “Becoming “Patriotic” for God: How Churches Join the State-sanctioned Protestant Organizations.” In Fenggang Yang, Jonathan Pettit and Christopher White (eds.) Religious Groups in the Changing Religious Markets of China: 15 Shades of Gray. Netherlands: Brill, pp. 17-34
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) Evolving Christianity and Social Change in Taiwan: The Typology of Taiwanese Churhces, in Yi, Chin-chun and Kuo-hsien Su (eds.) Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan, Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp.65-88. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2021) Social Engagement, Community Service, and Transnational Evangelism of Taiwanese Churches: The Preliminary Investigation, in Yi, Chin-chun and Kuo-hsien Su (eds.) Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan, Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp.247-270. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2018) Emergence and Development of Indigenous Christianity in China: A Class-Culture Approach. In Kuo, Cheng-tien (ed). Transfiguration of Chinese Christianity. Taipei: Chengchi University Press, pp. 153-193。
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2018) Culture Wars in a Globalized East: How Taiwanese Conservative Christianity Turned Public in Same-Sex-Marriage Controversy, in Chen, Mei-hua, Hsiu-jun Wang and Yu-ling Huang (eds.) 《欲望性公民：同性親密公民權讀本》, Kaosiung: Chuliu Publishing, pp.229-250. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2017) Shifting cross-strait religious interaction? From Taiwanese factor in developing Chinese Christianity to Chinese factor in developing Taiwanese Christianity, in Wu, Jieh-ming, H. Tsai and C. Cheng (eds.)《吊燈裡的巨蟒：中國因素的作用力與反作用力》, Taipei: Rive Gauche, pp.367-394. (in Chinese)
* Huang, Ke-hsien (2017) Taming the Spirit by Appropriating Indigenous Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the True Jesus Church as Confucian-Style Pentecostalism. Fenggang Yang, Joy K.C. Tong & Allan H. Anderson (eds.), Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. Netherland, Brill, 118-136。http://www.brill.com/cn/products/book/global-chinese-pentecostal-and-charismatic-christianity#DESREAD_1