religious studies

Field:Sociology
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: September 1, 2007 – September 1, 2008
Status: IIAS Professor, European Chair
Home institute: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica and Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Research topic: Religious changes in Taiwan
Field:Cultural-Religious History and Political Theory
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 21 October 2007 - 1 May 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute:
Research topic: Religious tolerance and the History of Bangladesh - A Study in the Evolution of Bengal’s Religious-Cultural Traditions and Politics.
Field:Tibet, Bon Religious History
Country of origin: Nepal
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 January 2009 – 1 July 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Leiden University
Research topic: The founder of Bon, the birth of a myth
Field:Indology, Vedic and Indo-European ritual studies
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 July 2008 - 31 December 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris
Research topic: Vedic ritual in Asian and European contexts
Field:Cultural and Social Anthropology
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 July 2008 – 14 October 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the National Science Counsil, Taiwan
Home institute: Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Research topic: Gods on Deeds: Engaged Religions among the Chinese in Malacca, Malaysia
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Field:Religious Studies
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 August 2006 - 1 August 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute:
Research topic: Pilgrimage to Pluralism: religious co-existence in Hyderabad and the Indian Ocean Region
Field:Education, political studies
Country of origin: U.K.
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 March 2007 – 1 September 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow, sponsored by USIP
Home institute:
Research topic: Islamic Education, Secular Education and Civil Society in South Thailand

WU Rui

Field: China Antiqua, especially intellectual history and religion history before A.D.220
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 16/11/2009 - 15/12/2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topic: How did Thought Grow develop in Early China