Dr. Jie Kang
Curriculum Vitae
Jie Kang coordinates the institute’s ethics approval process and serves as a liaison between researchers and the Ethics Committee. She also oversees the MMG Alumni Network and organizes alumni activities.
She is the author of House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor, together with Irfan Ahmad, of The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives (2021). Her broader research interests include transnational Chinese religious networks, state–church relations, and the intersections of religion, nationalism, secularism, and globalization.
Research projects
- Converting Muslim – Missionary Movement of Chinese Protestant House Church
- Chinese Christian community and network in Germany
- Christian tourism and its global connectedness (completed)
- From peasant to pastor -- The rural-urban transformation of Protestant Christianity in Linyi, Shandong Province (completed)