The 2025 joint workshop of the Journal for Research of Christianity in China (JRCC) and the Journal of the Study on Religion and History (JSRH) will be held on December 14 at Shanghai University's Baoshan Campus, bringing together scholars from Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai University, Nanchang University, and other leading institutions. The workshop focused on theology, Chinese Christian history, comparative religion, and biblical translation studies.
According to the Chinese Christian Studies, the full-day event featured two parallel forums. The first forum explored Christian thought and humanism, comparative religion, and biblical translation and hermeneutics. Key discussions included Zha Changping's aesthetics, the universality of Zhao Zichen's theology, early Jesuit and Dominican debates on Confucius, intertextual studies of "λόγος" and "dao (道)," and interactions between seventeenth-century Chinese prayer texts and biblical translations.
The second forum examined the history of Christian women, medical missions, wartime church activities, the economics of religion, and global Christianity. Presentations highlighted research on late Qing female missionaries' perspectives on Chinese women, Christian involvement in rural reconstruction during the war, the Chinese Communist Party's wartime Christian united front, and the influence of African independent churches on global faith.
The Journal of Research for Christianity in China (JRCC, Semi-Annual) and the Journal of the Study on Religion and History (JSRH, Semi-Annual, ISSN: 3068-4803) are peer-reviewed, open-access journals published by the Christianity and China Research Center in Los Angeles. JRCC, launched in 2013, publishes scholarly articles in Chinese or English on the history of Christianity in China, Chinese religions, and culture. JSRH, launched in 2020, focuses on the history of religion and publishes research, reviews, and commentary in English. Both journals are free to submit to, supporting global academic exchange.
