Mylène Chambon
Biographic Data
| ID | 704333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mylène Chambon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mylène |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambon |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8816-459X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Integral Human Development, History and Memory, A Local Church Chronicle, written by Paul Dass
Asian Catholic Materials and Spaces
While the material turn in religious studies has proven highly productive in challenging longstanding assumptions within the social scientific study of religion and in opening new avenues for research on contemporary Christianity, this special issue shifts the focus specifically to Asian Catholics and the material forms through which their faith is lived and expressed. It argues that a material and regionally grounded approach enables the develop…
Collecting Catholicity: The Materialization of Faith within the Taiwanese Domestic Sphere
This article explores how contemporary Taiwanese Catholics materialize their faith within their homes. Based on ethnographic material collected from Catholic households in Northern Taiwan, it presents the diversity of religious items found in the homes of churchgoers, the organizational patterns of these artifacts, and the invisible relationships behind them. Moving beyond discussions of inculturation as a process of integration and of material r…
The Dialogic Culturation of Mother Mary in South Korea: Between Universal Aspirations and Local Footprints
As a central figure of Catholic devotion, representations of Mary serve as a crucial lens through which to analyze the contemporary formation of Catholicism and its intersections with national identity, modernity, and cultural transformation. In this paper, I examine contemporary representations of Mother Mary in South Korea, highlighting the underlying dynamics of these portrayals and their broader significance for understanding both Korean Cath…
Young Caregivers: Types of Care and Family Bounds
Cet article est issu des résultats d’une recherche participative menée en 2020 dans laquelle 48 entretiens ont été réalisés avec des personnes étant ou ayant été jeunes aidants, des professionnels du secteur médico-social, de la santé, de l’Éducation nationale, ainsi que des personnes ressources (experts du handicap, de l’enseignement, du soutien aux aidants, etc.). Il se propose d’analyser comment la situation de « jeune aidant » transforme les …
Lateral Synodality: Academics of Asian Catholicism and Organizational Change
As the Synod on Synodality has massively consulted Catholics around the globe for three years (2021-2024), this paper discusses ways in which academics with knowledge related to Asian Catholics have been involved in these processes. Focusing on this specific community of scholars, we highlight the paradoxical ways in which they contributed to these synodal conversations. They simultaneously illustrate the relatively new production of multidiscipl…
Uneasy Encounters: Christian Churches in Greater China, written by Rychetská, Magdaléna
Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia, written by Chang Yau Hoon
The Missionary and the Pea: An Anthropological Study of the French MEP Economy
This paper discusses how the French missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) are linking humans and material objects to support their religious agenda. Revisiting the long history of this organization in Hong Kong and Thailand, but also its distinct recruitment and assignment policies, I highlight how these Catholic missionaries rely on their French cultural background to interconnect people and goods. While theological principles a…
Dancing before Christ and Chinese Citizens: Protestant Calisthenics and Religious Space in Contemporary China
This article explores how Protestants have developed Christian calisthenics in contemporary China. Chinese society has demonstrated a renewed interest in calisthenics practiced in public space. Millions of practitioners gather early mornings or evenings to stretch, dance, and exercise outdoors. Female Christians are developing their religious version of these exercises. In tune with loud Christian hymns, they perform together on sidewalks to prai…
Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, Pieter Verstraete (dir.), Missionary Education. Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives: Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2021, 331 p
Analyser les enjeux qui structurent l'ducation chrtienne est un dfi global.Alors
Jeunes aidants: Formes d’aide et relations familiales
Cet article est issu des résultats d’une recherche participative menée en 2020 dans laquelle 48 entretiens ont été réalisés avec des personnes étant ou ayant été jeunes aidants, des professionnels du secteur médico-social, de la santé, de l’Éducation nationale, ainsi que des personnes ressources (experts du handicap, de l’enseignement, du soutien aux aidants, etc.). Il se propose d’analyser comment la situation de « jeune aidant » transforme les …
Remaking the Church Catholic in Post-Maoist China: The Outward Movement of Chinese Catholics and Their Collaborations with the Paris Foreign Missions
After the political reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong, Chinese Catholics were gradually allowed to reestablish their churches and resume public gatherings. Yet this opened serious challenges. After decades of persecution and isolation, which reshaped the ways Chinese Catholics worshipped and perceived themselves, they needed to redefine Chinese Catholicism. Is performing specific rituals in both Latin and a local dialect, at home and …
Françoise Fauconnet-Buzelin, Un évêque au pays des Talapoins, Louis Laneau, 1637-1696: Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2021, 400 p
In this third study dedicated to one founding figure of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), Françoise Fauconnet-Buzelin offers a crucial contribution to the historiography of not only the MEP but also to Catholic missions across Asia and Franco-Siamese relations. From 1669 until his death in 1696, Louis Laneau (1637-1696) was a missionary in Siam. With Pierre Lambert de la Motte and François Pallu, he is one of the early figures of the French…
How Do Chinese Christians Draw Boundaries among Themselves? Reassessing the Question of Chinese Christianities
This paper explores how Christians have established six communities in Nanping, Fujian, to discuss the unity and diversity of Chinese Christianity. The research provides a historical and ethnographic account of local churches, revealing the evolution of their modes of being religious and their organizational patterns over time. It argues that the negotiation of inter-ecclesial boundaries depends on specifically Christian features that foster a ce…
Michael J. Frost, The Spirit, Indigenous Peoples, and Social Change. Maori and a Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement: Leyde, Brill, 2019, 309 p
This book seeks to elaborate a Pentecostal theology of social engagement based on religious experiences of the Pentecostal Maori in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Historically, Pentecostalism has been reluctant to engage with systematic injustice and social inequalities or to promote political solutions to social problems. This religious movement prefers to focus on conversion, church development, spiritual warfare, and personal empowerment by the Holy …
Making Christ Present in China: Actor-Network Theory and the Anthropology of Christianity
The Bloody Business of Christian Conversion
Chinese Catholic Nuns and the Organization of Religious Life in Contemporary China
This article explores the evolution of female religious life within the Catholic Church in China today. Through ethnographic observation, it establishes a spectrum of practices between two main traditions, namely the antique beatas and the modern missionary congregations. The article argues that Chinese nuns create forms of religious life that are quite distinct from more universal Catholic standards: their congregations are always diocesan and i…
Les Chrétiens de Chine, Affiliations et conversions au XXIe siècle, written by Pierre Vendassi
The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment
This article explores the ways in which Christians are building churches in contemporary Nanping, China. At first glance, their architectural style appears simply neo-Gothic, but these buildings indeed enact a rich web of significances that acts upon local Christians and beyond. Building on Actor-Network Theory and exploring the multiple ties in which they are embedded, I argue that these buildings are agents acting in their own right, which take…
Embodied perception with others’ bodies in mind: Stereotype priming influence on the perception of spatial environment
It has been shown that spatial perception is not only a function of optical variables but also a function of people’s physiological potential. When this potential is reduced, either due to age or fatigue, individuals have been observed to report hills steeper and distances longer. Two studies have demonstrated that the experience of an actual reduction in capacities is not necessary. After being primed with the elderly category, young participant…
The effect of embodying the elderly on time perception
The present study investigated the perception of stimulus durations represented by elderly faces or by young faces. In a temporal bisection task, participants classified intermediate durations as more similar to a short or a long reference duration. The results showed that the durations represented by elderly faces were less often classified as “long” than the durations represented by young faces. According to internal clock models of time percep…
Chinese Catholic Nuns and the Organization of Religious Life in Contemporary China
This article explores the evolution of female religious life within the Catholic Church in China today. Through ethnographic observation, it establishes a spectrum of practices between two main traditions, namely the antique beatas and the modern missionary congregations. The article argues that Chinese nuns create forms of religious life that are quite distinct from more universal Catholic standards: their congregations are always diocesan and i…
The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment
This article explores the ways in which Christians are building churches in contemporary Nanping, China. At first glance, their architectural style appears simply neo-Gothic, but these buildings indeed enact a rich web of significances that acts upon local Christians and beyond. Building on Actor-Network Theory and exploring the multiple ties in which they are embedded, I argue that these buildings are agents acting in their own right, which take…
The effect of embodying the elderly on time perception
The present study investigated the perception of stimulus durations represented by elderly faces or by young faces. In a temporal bisection task, participants classified intermediate durations as more similar to a short or a long reference duration. The results showed that the durations represented by elderly faces were less often classified as “long” than the durations represented by young faces. According to internal clock models of time percep…
How Do Chinese Christians Draw Boundaries among Themselves? Reassessing the Question of Chinese Christianities
This paper explores how Christians have established six communities in Nanping, Fujian, to discuss the unity and diversity of Chinese Christianity. The research provides a historical and ethnographic account of local churches, revealing the evolution of their modes of being religious and their organizational patterns over time. It argues that the negotiation of inter-ecclesial boundaries depends on specifically Christian features that foster a ce…
Embodied perception with others’ bodies in mind: Stereotype priming influence on the perception of spatial environment
It has been shown that spatial perception is not only a function of optical variables but also a function of people’s physiological potential. When this potential is reduced, either due to age or fatigue, individuals have been observed to report hills steeper and distances longer. Two studies have demonstrated that the experience of an actual reduction in capacities is not necessary. After being primed with the elderly category, young participant…
The effect of embodying the elderly on time perception
The present study investigated the perception of stimulus durations represented by elderly faces or by young faces. In a temporal bisection task, participants classified intermediate durations as more similar to a short or a long reference duration. The results showed that the durations represented by elderly faces were less often classified as “long” than the durations represented by young faces. According to internal clock models of time percep…
Embodied perception with others’ bodies in mind: Stereotype priming influence on the perception of spatial environment
It has been shown that spatial perception is not only a function of optical variables but also a function of people’s physiological potential. When this potential is reduced, either due to age or fatigue, individuals have been observed to report hills steeper and distances longer. Two studies have demonstrated that the experience of an actual reduction in capacities is not necessary. After being primed with the elderly category, young participant…
Les Chrétiens de Chine, Affiliations et conversions au XXIe siècle, written by Pierre Vendassi
The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment
This article explores the ways in which Christians are building churches in contemporary Nanping, China. At first glance, their architectural style appears simply neo-Gothic, but these buildings indeed enact a rich web of significances that acts upon local Christians and beyond. Building on Actor-Network Theory and exploring the multiple ties in which they are embedded, I argue that these buildings are agents acting in their own right, which take…
Chinese Catholic Nuns and the Organization of Religious Life in Contemporary China
This article explores the evolution of female religious life within the Catholic Church in China today. Through ethnographic observation, it establishes a spectrum of practices between two main traditions, namely the antique beatas and the modern missionary congregations. The article argues that Chinese nuns create forms of religious life that are quite distinct from more universal Catholic standards: their congregations are always diocesan and i…
Making Christ Present in China: Actor-Network Theory and the Anthropology of Christianity
The Bloody Business of Christian Conversion
Michael J. Frost, The Spirit, Indigenous Peoples, and Social Change. Maori and a Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement: Leyde, Brill, 2019, 309 p
This book seeks to elaborate a Pentecostal theology of social engagement based on religious experiences of the Pentecostal Maori in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Historically, Pentecostalism has been reluctant to engage with systematic injustice and social inequalities or to promote political solutions to social problems. This religious movement prefers to focus on conversion, church development, spiritual warfare, and personal empowerment by the Holy …
Remaking the Church Catholic in Post-Maoist China: The Outward Movement of Chinese Catholics and Their Collaborations with the Paris Foreign Missions
After the political reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong, Chinese Catholics were gradually allowed to reestablish their churches and resume public gatherings. Yet this opened serious challenges. After decades of persecution and isolation, which reshaped the ways Chinese Catholics worshipped and perceived themselves, they needed to redefine Chinese Catholicism. Is performing specific rituals in both Latin and a local dialect, at home and …
Françoise Fauconnet-Buzelin, Un évêque au pays des Talapoins, Louis Laneau, 1637-1696: Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2021, 400 p
In this third study dedicated to one founding figure of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), Françoise Fauconnet-Buzelin offers a crucial contribution to the historiography of not only the MEP but also to Catholic missions across Asia and Franco-Siamese relations. From 1669 until his death in 1696, Louis Laneau (1637-1696) was a missionary in Siam. With Pierre Lambert de la Motte and François Pallu, he is one of the early figures of the French…
How Do Chinese Christians Draw Boundaries among Themselves? Reassessing the Question of Chinese Christianities
This paper explores how Christians have established six communities in Nanping, Fujian, to discuss the unity and diversity of Chinese Christianity. The research provides a historical and ethnographic account of local churches, revealing the evolution of their modes of being religious and their organizational patterns over time. It argues that the negotiation of inter-ecclesial boundaries depends on specifically Christian features that foster a ce…
Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, Pieter Verstraete (dir.), Missionary Education. Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives: Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2021, 331 p
Analyser les enjeux qui structurent l'ducation chrtienne est un dfi global.Alors
Jeunes aidants: Formes d’aide et relations familiales
Cet article est issu des résultats d’une recherche participative menée en 2020 dans laquelle 48 entretiens ont été réalisés avec des personnes étant ou ayant été jeunes aidants, des professionnels du secteur médico-social, de la santé, de l’Éducation nationale, ainsi que des personnes ressources (experts du handicap, de l’enseignement, du soutien aux aidants, etc.). Il se propose d’analyser comment la situation de « jeune aidant » transforme les …
Uneasy Encounters: Christian Churches in Greater China, written by Rychetská, Magdaléna
Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia, written by Chang Yau Hoon
The Missionary and the Pea: An Anthropological Study of the French MEP Economy
This paper discusses how the French missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) are linking humans and material objects to support their religious agenda. Revisiting the long history of this organization in Hong Kong and Thailand, but also its distinct recruitment and assignment policies, I highlight how these Catholic missionaries rely on their French cultural background to interconnect people and goods. While theological principles a…
Dancing before Christ and Chinese Citizens: Protestant Calisthenics and Religious Space in Contemporary China
This article explores how Protestants have developed Christian calisthenics in contemporary China. Chinese society has demonstrated a renewed interest in calisthenics practiced in public space. Millions of practitioners gather early mornings or evenings to stretch, dance, and exercise outdoors. Female Christians are developing their religious version of these exercises. In tune with loud Christian hymns, they perform together on sidewalks to prai…
Asian Catholic Materials and Spaces
While the material turn in religious studies has proven highly productive in challenging longstanding assumptions within the social scientific study of religion and in opening new avenues for research on contemporary Christianity, this special issue shifts the focus specifically to Asian Catholics and the material forms through which their faith is lived and expressed. It argues that a material and regionally grounded approach enables the develop…
Collecting Catholicity: The Materialization of Faith within the Taiwanese Domestic Sphere
This article explores how contemporary Taiwanese Catholics materialize their faith within their homes. Based on ethnographic material collected from Catholic households in Northern Taiwan, it presents the diversity of religious items found in the homes of churchgoers, the organizational patterns of these artifacts, and the invisible relationships behind them. Moving beyond discussions of inculturation as a process of integration and of material r…
The Dialogic Culturation of Mother Mary in South Korea: Between Universal Aspirations and Local Footprints
As a central figure of Catholic devotion, representations of Mary serve as a crucial lens through which to analyze the contemporary formation of Catholicism and its intersections with national identity, modernity, and cultural transformation. In this paper, I examine contemporary representations of Mother Mary in South Korea, highlighting the underlying dynamics of these portrayals and their broader significance for understanding both Korean Cath…
Young Caregivers: Types of Care and Family Bounds
Cet article est issu des résultats d’une recherche participative menée en 2020 dans laquelle 48 entretiens ont été réalisés avec des personnes étant ou ayant été jeunes aidants, des professionnels du secteur médico-social, de la santé, de l’Éducation nationale, ainsi que des personnes ressources (experts du handicap, de l’enseignement, du soutien aux aidants, etc.). Il se propose d’analyser comment la situation de « jeune aidant » transforme les …
Lateral Synodality: Academics of Asian Catholicism and Organizational Change
As the Synod on Synodality has massively consulted Catholics around the globe for three years (2021-2024), this paper discusses ways in which academics with knowledge related to Asian Catholics have been involved in these processes. Focusing on this specific community of scholars, we highlight the paradoxical ways in which they contributed to these synodal conversations. They simultaneously illustrate the relatively new production of multidiscipl…
Integral Human Development, History and Memory, A Local Church Chronicle, written by Paul Dass
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · History (7 works) · Christianity (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works)