Francis Khek Gee Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 145355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Khek Gee Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis Khek Gee |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM F K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
AI and Generative Charisma in Religious Practices
Across modern Asia and many other regions, artificial intelligence is transforming religious life in diverse and profound ways. Robot priests chant sutras at Japanese Buddhist temples, AI-powered apps offer personalised coaching in Quranic recitation to millions of Muslims, and bereaved families consult algorithm-generated avatars of the deceased in China. They are neither merely tools for instrumental use nor channels for transmitting pre-existi…
Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819–2000, written by Jean DeBernardi
Religion and development ethics in global perspective: A case study of a foreign Christian NGO in China
Much academic writing on religion and development tends to focus on the values, beliefs, and modes of operation of religious organizations to examine whether religion contributes ethically to development. A problem with such an approach is its disregard of the contested and evolving nature of religious participation in development in broader national and global contexts. What constitutes ethical religious contribution to development? How can we s…
New Developments in Christianity in China
Christianity's rapid expansion in China in recent years has attracted much attention from scholars, China policymakers, local and international media, and the wider public
Serving the Lord: Christianity, Work, and Social Engagement in China
This study examines how Chinese evangelical Protestant employees view work and the workplace, through the lens of their religion, and how they seek to influence the broader society, in a highly restrictive religious domain in China. Using the concept of everyday religion, I examined how these employees seek to integrate faith into their work and the workplace, and the issues and challenges they face in the process. While existing China-focused st…
Christianity in contemporary China: Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Mediating Christianity in Contemporary Asia
This article aims to provide a broad survey of the intimate relations between media and Christianity in contemporary Asia by taking into account two overlapping strands of scholarship, one of technology and society, the other of religion and the media. Particular attention is given to how the invention of new media technologies causes important shifts in the ways people practice their faith and how Christian communities are formed in Asia. With t…
The Eternal Mother and the State: Circumventing Religious Management in Singapore
Most modern states have policies for the management of religion. For those with diverse religious communities, how to ensure the peaceful coexistence of the various religions becomes an important challenge for governments. Hence, modern secular states often delineate a proper “domain” for religion in society in order to properly regulate it. In response, religious groups, many transnational in nature, can adopt various strategies to respond to st…
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, & Michael Parnwell (Eds) Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2009 x+358 pp., ill., bibliography, index, ISBN 978 87 7
Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia
Charismatic technology / Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Religion in the age of technology -- Technologies, religion and social mediation / Bryan S. Turner -- The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla -- Technology, religion and nationalism -- A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir -- Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Mediating…
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
1. Introduction: and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim 2. Evangelism, the State, and Subjectivity Bryan S. Turner 3. Is Protestant Conversion a Form of Protest? Urban and Upland Protestants in Southeast Asia Oscar Salemink 4. Postwar Japanese Christian Historians, Democracy, and the Problem of Wartime Christianity on Japanese Terms Gregory Vanderbilt 5. Negotiating 'Foreignness', Localizing Faith:…
Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya
This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the 'good life' as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of 'local knowledge', this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural persp…
Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya
Imagining the good life: Negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya
"This original book analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the 'good life' as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of 'local knowledge', this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural perspective. Based on ethn…
Chapter Four. Being in the world and the rituals of life
Because of the immediacy of dugpu and the prominent place it occupies in local social memory, the Langtangpa are very preoccupied in their efforts to avoid it while constantly striving to attain its opposite? kipu. The word connotes happiness, well-being, goodness, material prosperity and comfort. Not surprisingly, then, it also means ?good life? in Langtang. It is important then to minimise dugpu and maximise kipu. This chapter shows that the pr…
Of reverie and emplacement: Spatial imaginings and tourism encounters in Nepal Himalaya
While the concept of the 'tourist gaze' has been influential in tourism research, the 'counter-gaze' of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists' places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel's theory of sociation, this paper attempts a simultaneous analysis of the shifting images the visitors and hosts have of each other and how th…
Hotels as sites of power: Tourism, status, and politics in Nepal Himalaya
This article is about the social and cultural significance of hotels in the Nepal Himalaya. Through a socio-semiotic approach, I analyse how the hotel in Himalayan tourism functions as an architectural form that mediates different social domains, and through the process embeds the ideology of 'development' in everyday life, producing the power relations that would in turn generate their very contestations. By treating the materiality of the hotel…
Life Goes On: Living with HIV and Aids in Singapore
Locating the field: Metaphors of space, place and context in anthropology
ASA Conference, Grey College, Durham, 29 March-1 April 2004
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
1. Introduction: and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim 2. Evangelism, the State, and Subjectivity Bryan S. Turner 3. Is Protestant Conversion a Form of Protest? Urban and Upland Protestants in Southeast Asia Oscar Salemink 4. Postwar Japanese Christian Historians, Democracy, and the Problem of Wartime Christianity on Japanese Terms Gregory Vanderbilt 5. Negotiating 'Foreignness', Localizing Faith:…
Hotels as sites of power: Tourism, status, and politics in Nepal Himalaya
This article is about the social and cultural significance of hotels in the Nepal Himalaya. Through a socio-semiotic approach, I analyse how the hotel in Himalayan tourism functions as an architectural form that mediates different social domains, and through the process embeds the ideology of 'development' in everyday life, producing the power relations that would in turn generate their very contestations. By treating the materiality of the hotel…
The Eternal Mother and the State: Circumventing Religious Management in Singapore
Most modern states have policies for the management of religion. For those with diverse religious communities, how to ensure the peaceful coexistence of the various religions becomes an important challenge for governments. Hence, modern secular states often delineate a proper “domain” for religion in society in order to properly regulate it. In response, religious groups, many transnational in nature, can adopt various strategies to respond to st…
Of reverie and emplacement: Spatial imaginings and tourism encounters in Nepal Himalaya
While the concept of the 'tourist gaze' has been influential in tourism research, the 'counter-gaze' of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists' places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel's theory of sociation, this paper attempts a simultaneous analysis of the shifting images the visitors and hosts have of each other and how th…
Serving the Lord: Christianity, Work, and Social Engagement in China
This study examines how Chinese evangelical Protestant employees view work and the workplace, through the lens of their religion, and how they seek to influence the broader society, in a highly restrictive religious domain in China. Using the concept of everyday religion, I examined how these employees seek to integrate faith into their work and the workplace, and the issues and challenges they face in the process. While existing China-focused st…
Mediating Christianity in Contemporary Asia
This article aims to provide a broad survey of the intimate relations between media and Christianity in contemporary Asia by taking into account two overlapping strands of scholarship, one of technology and society, the other of religion and the media. Particular attention is given to how the invention of new media technologies causes important shifts in the ways people practice their faith and how Christian communities are formed in Asia. With t…
Life Goes On: Living with HIV and Aids in Singapore
Locating the field: Metaphors of space, place and context in anthropology
ASA Conference, Grey College, Durham, 29 March-1 April 2004
Hotels as sites of power: Tourism, status, and politics in Nepal Himalaya
This article is about the social and cultural significance of hotels in the Nepal Himalaya. Through a socio-semiotic approach, I analyse how the hotel in Himalayan tourism functions as an architectural form that mediates different social domains, and through the process embeds the ideology of 'development' in everyday life, producing the power relations that would in turn generate their very contestations. By treating the materiality of the hotel…
Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya
This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the 'good life' as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of 'local knowledge', this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural persp…
Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya
Imagining the good life: Negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya
"This original book analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the 'good life' as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of 'local knowledge', this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural perspective. Based on ethn…
Chapter Four. Being in the world and the rituals of life
Because of the immediacy of dugpu and the prominent place it occupies in local social memory, the Langtangpa are very preoccupied in their efforts to avoid it while constantly striving to attain its opposite? kipu. The word connotes happiness, well-being, goodness, material prosperity and comfort. Not surprisingly, then, it also means ?good life? in Langtang. It is important then to minimise dugpu and maximise kipu. This chapter shows that the pr…
Of reverie and emplacement: Spatial imaginings and tourism encounters in Nepal Himalaya
While the concept of the 'tourist gaze' has been influential in tourism research, the 'counter-gaze' of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists' places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel's theory of sociation, this paper attempts a simultaneous analysis of the shifting images the visitors and hosts have of each other and how th…
Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia
Charismatic technology / Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Religion in the age of technology -- Technologies, religion and social mediation / Bryan S. Turner -- The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla -- Technology, religion and nationalism -- A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir -- Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Mediating…
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
1. Introduction: and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim 2. Evangelism, the State, and Subjectivity Bryan S. Turner 3. Is Protestant Conversion a Form of Protest? Urban and Upland Protestants in Southeast Asia Oscar Salemink 4. Postwar Japanese Christian Historians, Democracy, and the Problem of Wartime Christianity on Japanese Terms Gregory Vanderbilt 5. Negotiating 'Foreignness', Localizing Faith:…
Christianity in contemporary China: Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Mediating Christianity in Contemporary Asia
This article aims to provide a broad survey of the intimate relations between media and Christianity in contemporary Asia by taking into account two overlapping strands of scholarship, one of technology and society, the other of religion and the media. Particular attention is given to how the invention of new media technologies causes important shifts in the ways people practice their faith and how Christian communities are formed in Asia. With t…
The Eternal Mother and the State: Circumventing Religious Management in Singapore
Most modern states have policies for the management of religion. For those with diverse religious communities, how to ensure the peaceful coexistence of the various religions becomes an important challenge for governments. Hence, modern secular states often delineate a proper “domain” for religion in society in order to properly regulate it. In response, religious groups, many transnational in nature, can adopt various strategies to respond to st…
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, & Michael Parnwell (Eds) Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2009 x+358 pp., ill., bibliography, index, ISBN 978 87 7
Serving the Lord: Christianity, Work, and Social Engagement in China
This study examines how Chinese evangelical Protestant employees view work and the workplace, through the lens of their religion, and how they seek to influence the broader society, in a highly restrictive religious domain in China. Using the concept of everyday religion, I examined how these employees seek to integrate faith into their work and the workplace, and the issues and challenges they face in the process. While existing China-focused st…
Religion and development ethics in global perspective: A case study of a foreign Christian NGO in China
Much academic writing on religion and development tends to focus on the values, beliefs, and modes of operation of religious organizations to examine whether religion contributes ethically to development. A problem with such an approach is its disregard of the contested and evolving nature of religious participation in development in broader national and global contexts. What constitutes ethical religious contribution to development? How can we s…
New Developments in Christianity in China
Christianity's rapid expansion in China in recent years has attracted much attention from scholars, China policymakers, local and international media, and the wider public
Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819–2000, written by Jean DeBernardi
AI and Generative Charisma in Religious Practices
Across modern Asia and many other regions, artificial intelligence is transforming religious life in diverse and profound ways. Robot priests chant sutras at Japanese Buddhist temples, AI-powered apps offer personalised coaching in Quranic recitation to millions of Muslims, and bereaved families consult algorithm-generated avatars of the deceased in China. They are neither merely tools for instrumental use nor channels for transmitting pre-existi…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Christianity (8 works) · History (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · China (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)