CHEN Jinguo

Chen Jinguo is a professor of religion studies at Minzu University of China; formerly served as a researcher at the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Anthropology of Religion Professional Committee of the Religion in China Society, editor in chief of Anthropology of Religion, and editor in chief of Religion in China’s Religious Report (Bluebook of Religions). His research focuses on the fields of anthropology of religion and religious history. Chen’s representative works (in Chinese) include Facing Kalpa: Field Studies of Contemporary Chinese Soteriological Religions (2017) and Religion, Rituals, and Local Society: Historical Anthropology Exploration of Fengshui (2005), among others.