- School of Divinity
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8961
- Email: Alexander.Chow@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Blog
- Web: Academia.edu
Address
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New College
Mound Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity
New College
Mound Place
Alexander Chow is an American-born Chinese who was raised in Southern California. He completed his PhD in theology at the University of Birmingham, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Renmin University of China, where he was doing research in Chinese Christianity and teaching in the School of Liberal Arts. Alex joined the University of Edinburgh in September 2013 and is an editor of Studies in World Christianity, an academic journal published through Edinburgh University Press.
Alex has written a number of articles on Christianity in China, and more broadly, in East Asia. He has written two books, Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; Chinese edition: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, 2015) and Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2018).
MA ThM PhD FHEA
Editor, Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press)
Chair, Chinese Christianities Program Unit (American Academy of Religion)
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Alex's research interests mainly revolve around the following: